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Prof. Marsha Hewitt

Acting Dean of Divinity; Faculty Advisor; Professor of Divinity, ²Ê°ÔÍõÂÛ̳; ;
Fellow of the College
Professor,
Gerald Larkin Building: 15 Devonshire Pl, 3rd Floor, Room 326
Tel: 416-978-2887  82887
Fax: 416-978-4949

MA, McMaster

PhD, Concordia

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Marsha Aileen Hewitt is a full professor in the Department for the Study of Religion at the University of Toronto, and the Faculty of Divinity at ²Ê°ÔÍõÂÛ̳. She teaches undergraduate and graduate courses in psychoanalytic theory and clinical practice, psychoanalytic psychology of religion, dreams and visions, critical theory and method and theory in the study of religion. Professor Hewitt has numerous scholarly publications in the fields of psychoanalysis, critical social theory, liberation theology and feminism. Her books include From Theology to Social Theory: Juan Luis Segundo and the Theology of Liberation and Critical Theory of Religion: A Feminist Analysis. Her most recent publications include Freud on Religion (2014), “Christian Anti-Judaism and Early Object Relations Theory” (2018), “The Psychoanalytic Occult in Freud and Contemporary Theory” (2017), and “Spirits in the Mind, Gods in the Brain: Contemporary Psychologies of Religious Experience” (2016). Her latest book, “Legacies of the Occult: Psychoanalysis, Religion and Unconscious Communication” (2020). Her current project is A Psychoanalytic Psychology of Religion: Possession, Trances and Transference.
Marsha Hewitt is a psychoanalyst in private practice, and a supervisor and Faculty member at the Toronto Institute for Contemporary Psychoanalysis.


Marsha Hewitt