As It Was in the Beginning: Death and Re-membrance and the Christian Intuition

The author argues that the psyche crafts an affective metaphor for death out of the separation drama of infancy. Emergence of self from the mother-infant dyad can accomplish cohesion of fragmentary unconscious mentation strong enough, following Winnicott, to make possible a belief in God. Through de...

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Auteur principal: Lisagor, Meredith (Auteur)
Type de support: Électronique Article
Langue:Anglais
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Publié: Springer Science + Business Media B. V. [2004]
Dans: Journal of religion and health
Année: 2004, Volume: 43, Numéro: 4, Pages: 343-355
Sujets non-standardisés:B Dionysus
B belief-in
B inbeingness
B remember [re-member]
B Death
B child-god
B Nonbeing
B Christianity
B Being
B Feminine
B Fragmentation
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Résumé:The author argues that the psyche crafts an affective metaphor for death out of the separation drama of infancy. Emergence of self from the mother-infant dyad can accomplish cohesion of fragmentary unconscious mentation strong enough, following Winnicott, to make possible a belief in God. Through developmental synergy between female and male elements, a sense of participation in an eternal principle of being can be achieved, sustaining the ego against anxieties over disintegration, and death as its analog. Myths of the child god illuminate the equation of fragmentation with death of self. Christianity expresses how the cohered self can transcend fragmentation.
ISSN:1573-6571
Contient:Enthalten in: Journal of religion and health
Persistent identifiers:DOI: 10.1007/s10943-004-4301-0