Religious Experience and Self-Psychology (eBook)

Jung Eun Jang is Assistant Professor at Ewha Womans University, South Korea, who is teaching pastoral care and counseling in the department of Christian Studies. He is an ordained pastor of the Korean Presbyterian Church, as well as a Nationally Certified Psychoanalyst(NCPsyA), certified by NAAP (National Association for the Advancement of Psychoanalysis).

Chapter One: Psychological Analysis of the 1907 Revival MovementContexts for the StudyThe Method and Underlying Theory of the StudyResources for the StudyContributions to the Study of the 1907 Revival Movement Outline of ChaptersChapter Two: Kohut’s Self Psychology: Selfobject and Selfobject ExperiencesA Psychoanalytic Theory of the Development of the Self Structure of the SelfThe SelfobjectThree Types of Selfobject Experience  1. The Selfobject Experience of Mirroring  2. The Selfobject Experience of Idealizing  3. The Selfobject Experience of TwinshipFaulty Self Developments.The Therapeutic ProcessThe Group SelfKohut’s Understanding on ReligionChapter Three: The Korean Group Self and the Joseon Dynasty.Selfobject Functions of the Political, Social, and Religious Systems of the Joseon DynastyThe Emergence of the Fragmented Korean Group Self.Expression of the Enfeebled Korean Group Self in the Society and ArtA Constant Search for Substitute SelfobjectsChapter Four: The Selfobject Functions of the 1907 Revival Movement.The Progress of the 1907 Revival Movement.The Mirroring Selfobject ExperienceThe Idealizing Selfobject ExperienceThe Twinship Selfobject ExperienceConclusionChapter Five: Korean Christianity and the Korean Groups SelfThe Korean Protestant Church and its Recent Critical SituationFaulty Empathy of the Korean Protestant Church1.Fragmentation of the Korean Group Self in the Modern and Contemporary Korean History2.Religious Materialism and Failure of Selfobject Functions.The Restoration of the Korean Protestant Church’s Selfobject Functions1.Increasing Social Participation of the Church2.A Well-proportioned Theological View between Self-surrender and Self-acceptance 3.Development of Leadership that is Appropriate to the Contemporary PeriodChapter Six: Conclusion: Sublimation, Oceanic Feeling, and the SelfobjectSublimationThe “Oceanic Feeling” and Mystical Practices.The Selfobject and ReligionThe Selfobject and Korean Christianity