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London,Yale University Press,1970  \nCopyright @1970 by Yale University.All rights reserved.This book may not bereproduced,in whole or in part,in any form(except by reviewers for the public press),without written permission from the publishers.Library of Congress catalog card number:70-89907Designed by Sally Sullivanset in Times Roman type,  \nand printed in the United States of America byVail-Ballou Press,Inc.,Binghamton,N.YDistributed in Great Britain,Europe,Asia,andAfrica by Yale University Press Ltd.,London;inCanada by McGill-Queen's University Press,Montreal;andin Mexico by Centro Interamericano de LibrosAcadémicos,Mexico City.  \nThe Dwight Harrington TerryFoundation Lectureson Religion in the Light ofScience and Philosophy  \nThe deed of gift declares that “theobject of this foundation is not the promotion of scientific investiga-tion and discovery,but rather the assimilation and interpretation ofthat which has been or shall be hereafter discovered,and its ap-plication to human welfare,especially by the building of the truthsof science and philosophy into the structure of a broadened andpurified religion.The founder believes that such a religion willgreatly stimulate intelligent effort for the improvement of humanconditions and the advancement of the race in strength and ex-cellence of character.To this end it is desired that a series of lec-tures be given by men eminent in their respective departments,onethics,the history of civilization and religion,biblical research,allsciences and branches of knowledge which have an important bear-ing on the subject,all the great laws of nature,especially of evolu-tion ...also such interpretations of literature and sociology*asare in accord with the spirit of this foundation,to the end that theChristian spirit may be nurtured in the fullest light of the world'sknowledge and that mankind may be helped to attain its highestpossible welfare and happiness upon this earth.”The present workconstitutes the thirty-eighth volume published on this foundation.  \nCONTENTS  \nxi  \nPreface  \nTranslator's Note  \nXV  \nBook I:Problematic:The Placing of Freud  \n1.Language,Symbol,and InterpretationPsychoanalysis and Language,3;Symbol and Inter-pretation,6;Toward a Critique of Symbol,9  \n3  \n2.The Conflict of InterpretationsThe Concept of Interpretation,20;Interpretation asRecollection of Meaning,28;Interpretation as Exer-cise of Suspicion,32  \n20  \n3.Hermeneutic Method and Reflective  \n37  \nPhilosophy  \nThe Recourse of Symbols to Reflection,37;The Re-course of Reflection to Symbols,42;Reflection andEquivocal Language,47;Reflection and the Herme-neutic Confict,54  \nBook II:Analytic:Reading of Freud  \nIntroduction:How to Read Freud59PART I:ENERGETICS AND HERMENEUTICSThe Epistemological Problem in Freudianism 65  \n1.An Energetics Without Hermeneutics69The Constancy Principle and the Quantitative Appa-ratus,71;Toward the Topography,82  \n2.Energetics and Hermeneutics in The Inter-pretation of Dreams87The Dream-Work and the Work of Exegesis,88;The“Psychology”of Chapter 7,1023.Instinct and Idea in the \"Papers onMetapsychology”115The Attainment of the Topographic-Economic Viewvii  \nand of the Concept of Instinct,117;Representativesand Ideas,134  \nPART II:THE INTERPRETATION OF CULTURE  \n1.The Analogy of Dreams159The Privileged Place of Dreams,159;The Analogy ofthe Work of Art,163  \n178  \n2.From the Oneiric to the Sublime  \nThe Clinical and Descriptive Approaches to Interpre-tation,180;The Genetic Ways of Interpretation,186;The Metapsychological Problem:The Notion of theSuperego,211  \n3.Illusion  \n230  \nIllusion and the Strategy of Desire,231;The GeneticStage of Explanation:Totemism and Monotheism,236;The Economic Function of Religion,247  \nPART III:EROS,THANTOS,ANANKE  \n1.The Pleasure Principle and the RealityPrinciple261  \nThe Reality Principle and the Secondary Process,263;The Reality Principle 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