Title
Ernest Hemingway: From Religious Communities to the Privatization of Religion
Document Type
Essay
Annotation
Freudian analysis of the secularization of American culture during the 1920s. Uses “Soldier’s Home,” “Big Two-Hearted River,” The Old Man and the Sea, A Farewell to Arms, and The Sun Also Rises to show the effects of the breakdown of institutionalized religion and community: anomie, chaos, and alienation. Analyzes Hemingway’s replacement of church with secular rituals and communities.
Published in
Freud, Religion, and the Roaring Twenties: A Psychoanalytic Theory of Secularization in Three Novelists: Anderson, Hemingway, and Fitzgerald
Date
1990
Pages
135-177
COinS
Citation
Idema, Henry, III. “Ernest Hemingway: From Religious Communities to the Privatization of Religion.” In Freud, Religion, and the Roaring Twenties: A Psychoanalytic Theory of Secularization in Three Novelists: Anderson, Hemingway, and Fitzgerald, 135-77. Savage, MD: Rowman & Littlefield, 1990.