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| Acknowledgements | x |
| Chapter 1 Introduction | 1 |
| Chapter 2 The Working of Values in Ethics and Religion | 9 |
| Chapter 3 Jonathan Lear: Heir to a Different Legacy | 33 |
| Chapter 4 Who Founded Buddhism? Notes on the Psychological Action of Religious Objects | 42 |
| Chapter 5 Dante's Two Suns: The Psychological Sources of the Divine Comedy | 62 |
| Chapter 6 Dante, Duality, and the Function of Allegory | 79 |
| Chapter 7 Freud and Idealisation | 91 |
| Chapter 8 The Transcendent in Everyday Life | 106 |
| Chapter 9 Religion as the Affirmation of Values | 119 |
| Chapter 10 Levinas' Re-Basing of Religion | 132 |
| Index | 148 |
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