This collection of fourteen essays edited by David Black examines the interface of contemporary psychoanalysis and religion with a certain shared bias that their relationship is currently more amicable than it has been in the past and certainly in the lifetime of Freud and his immediate successors.

The essays are divided into four sections. The first deals with the nature of religious truth around the issue of the objective existence of God. Rachel Blass unflinchingly sets the problem by stating that religion, which she seems to reduce to monotheistic theism, demands belief in an objective God wholly transcendent to native human experience. She concludes that this major obstacle to reconciliation with psychoanalysis is somehow mitigated by Freud's late reflection on his own drive to understand, and by his references