Joy and the Objects of Psychoanalysis: Literature, Belief, and Neurosis

by Volney P. Gay

Volney P. Gay is Professor of Religion, Professor of Psychiatry, and Professor of Anthropology at Vanderbilt University, and a Training and Supervising Analyst at the St. Louis Psychoanalytic Institute. His previous book, Freud on Reconsiderations , published by SUNY Press, won the Heinz Hartmann Award from the New York Psychoanalytic Institute.

257 pages, Paperback

First published September 28, 2001

About the author

Volney Patrick Gay is a professor of religious studies, psychiatry, and anthropology at Vanderbilt University (Nashville, TN), and the director of the Centre for the Study of Religion and Culture.