This brief treatise explores the common threads to psychoanalytic thought and theological
theory. It uses a psychoanalytic lens to examine Judeo Christian concepts of individual will
consciousness and the unconscious and the apparent confounding idea of sin. What is new is
that the definition of sin is revealed as a psychoanalytic translation of acting-out. Focusing
on the behavior of acting-out it illuminates ideas that are part of Western cultural tradition
providing insights to those interested in the psychology and its history and philosophy. As
such it is a highly relevant work for psychologists psychiatrists and psychoanalysts as
well as for a comparative study of psychoanalytic and theological intersecting structures.
