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...
| Published in: | Journal of religion and health |
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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Springer Science + Business Media B. V.
[2004]
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Journal of religion and health
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| Further subjects: | 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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| Summary: | 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. |
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| ISSN: | 1573-6571 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Journal of religion and health
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1007/s10943-004-4301-0 |