Tamas Pataki is a philosopher and senior honorary fellow at the University of Melbourne, Australia. He is the author of Religion, Narcissism and Fanaticism (2024) and Wish-fulfilment in Philosophy and Psychoanalysis: The Tyranny of Desire (2014).
In this illuminating volume, Tamas Pataki critically examines Freud’s psychoanalytic approach to religion, tracing its intellectual evolution and impact on contemporary theories and... (more)
Wish-fulfilment as a singular means of satisfying ineluctable desire is a pivotal concept in classical psychoanalysis. Freud argued that it was the thread that united dreams, daydreams, phantasy,... (more)