Acknowledgments
Introduction: tensions in Freud, extensions in Lacan and Trauma, Oedipus complex, and the exigencies of subjective Formation
Traumatic experience and psychical reality
Oedipal dynamics and entry into the symbolic 2 Religion, ethics, and acculturation
Freud's critique of religion and the latent issue of ethical Transformation
Lacan and the problem of modalities of subjectivity 3 Displacement, supplementarity, and symbolic meaning in Totem and Taboo
The myth of origins and the problem of origination
Omnipotence of thoughts and cultural reality
The sacrifice: from the real to the symbolic
4 Moses and Monotheism: the trauma of symbolization
More originary hypotheses
Textual and psychological vicissitudes
Trauma and the return of the repressed
5 Moses and Monotheism: the psychodynamics of Geistigkeit
The great man and the symbolic order
The realm of Geist
Drive renunciation and subjective transformation 6 Psycho-cultural inquiry from Freud to Kristeva
Issues of critique and transformation
Displacing the ego and opening to the Other
The unconscious structured like a language
Kristeva on melancholia, art, and religion
Concluding Remarks
