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personal lives in that sort of way. But I certainly do think that religious thinking and
psychoanalytic thinking can coexist, especially so if you are looking for the spirit or the
soul, to the relationship with greater entities than ourselves and situating oneself in the
world of the unknown. Then “yes”, I think psychoanalysis and religion are in the same
area’ (Stein and Stein 2000: 310f.).
Charles Rycroft, ‘That's a fairly impossible question. Nobody seems to know what they
mean by the word spirituality any longer. On the whole, Freudians are not very religious
and are therefore suspicious of any words that have a religious history … I suppose that a lot
of people who became analysts nowadays would have in an earlier generation been called
spiritual. But that is a grey area and I think it will remain a grey area for a long time’ (Stein
and Stein 2000: 338).
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