From the numinous to the sacred.
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| Title: | From the numinous to the sacred. |
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| Authors: | MacKenna, Christopher (AUTHOR) |
| Source: | Journal of Analytical Psychology. Apr2009, Vol. 54 Issue 2, p167-182. 16p. |
| Subjects: | Archetype (Psychology), Das Heilige (Book), Otto, Rudolf, 1869-1937, Holy, The, Sea monsters |
| Abstract (English): | Jung took the idea of the ‘numinous’ from Rudolf Otto's book Das Heilige (E.T. The Idea of the Holy) and made it central to his understanding of religion. However, as Lucy Huskinson has recently pointed out, this involves a misreading of Otto's work in which we have to look beyond the numinous (which is the non-rational factor in religion) towards the ‘holy’ which, like a symbol, holds the rational and non-rational aspects of religious experience together in a personally transformative way. This understanding of the spiritual and psychological journey is supported by case material in which a numinous experience, arising in the context of intensive analytical psychotherapy, proved to be but the first step in a process which led, through a period of mourning, towards the development of the patient's capacity to symbolize. In the light of this, the author suggests that the sacred is to be found in the capacity for a certain quality of symbolic relatedness—to self and other—which may or may not be attended by numinous experience. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR] |
| Abstract (Spanish): | Jung tomó la idea de la 'numinoso ' de Rudolf Otto en el libro Das Heilige (ET La Idea de lo Sagrado) y lo hizo fundamental para su comprensión de la religión. Sin embargo, como Lucy Huskinson recientemente ha señalado, se trata de una interpretación errónea de la labor de Otto en la que tenemos que mirar más allá de lo numinoso (que es el factor no‐racional en la religión) en función de lo 'sagrado' el cual, similar a un símbolo, comprende aspectos racionales y no racionales de la experiencia religiosa integrados en una forma de transformación personal. Esta comprensión del viaje espiritual y psicológico es apoyado por el material de casos en donde una experiencia numinosa, surgiendo en el contexto de la psicoterapia analítica intensa, resultó ser sólo el primer paso en un proceso que condujo, a través de un período de duelo, hacia el desarrollo de la capacidad del paciente para simbolizar. A la luz de esto, el autor sugiere que lo sagrado se puede encontrar en la capacidad para entablar una cierta calidad de relación simbólica‐consigo mismo y con el otro‐ella puede o no ser tocada por la experiencia numinosa. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR] |
| Abstract (French): | Jung emprunta l'idée du numineux à l'ouvrage de Rudolf Otto Das Heilige et la plaça au centre de sa propre compréhension de la religion. Cependant, ainsi que l'a récemment souligné Lucy Huskinson, ceci suppose une méconnaissance du travail d'Otto, selon lequel il s'agit de regarder au‐delà du numineux (qui est le facteur non rationnel de la religion) et de viser le 'sacré' qui, comme un symbole, fait tenir ensemble les aspects rationnel et non rationnel de l'expérience religieuse, en un mouvement de transformation personnelle. Une telle compréhension du voyage spirituel et psychologique est étayée par un cas clinique; une expérience numineuse apparue au cours d'une psychothérapie analytique intensive s'avéra n'être que le premier pas d'un processus qui conduisit le patient, à travers une période de deuil, au développement de sa capacité symbolique. A partir de cet éclairage, l'auteur suggère que le sacré est à rechercher dans l'existence d'une certaine qualité d'aptitude relationnelle symbolique, à soi‐même et aux autres, que celle‐ci s'accompagne ou pas d'une expérience numineuse. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR] |
| Abstract (German): | Jung entnahm die Idee des 'Numinosen' dem Buch Rudolf Ottos, Das Heilige und machte sie zum Zentralpunkt seines Religionsverständnisses. Wie Lucie Huskinson kürzlich gezeigt hat, beinhaltet dies jedoch ein Fehlverständnis des Werkes Ottos, wo wir hinter das Numinose (welches der nichtrationale Faktor in der Religion ist) auf das 'Heilige' schauen müssen, welches, wie ein Symbol, die rationalen und nichtrationalen Aspekte der religiösen Erfahrung zusammenhält und auf je persönliche Weise umsetzt. Dieses Verständnis der spirituellen und psychologischen Reise wird durch Fallmaterial gestützt, in welchem eine numinose Erfahrung, die im Kontext einer intensiven analytischen Psychotherapie auftauchte, sich als erster Schritt erwies in einem Prozeß, der durch eine Phase der Trauer hindurch zur Entwicklung von Symbolisierungsfähigkeit beim Patienten führte. Auf diesem Hintergrund vermutet der Autor, daß das Heilige in der Fähigkeit zu einer bestimmten Qualität der symbolischen Beziehung – zum Selbst oder zu anderen, gesucht werden muß, wobei numinose Erfahrungen begleitend auftreten können, aber nicht müssen. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR] |
| Abstract (Italian): | Jung prese l'idea del 'numinoso' dal libro di Rudolf Otto 'L'idea del Sacro' e ne fece il centro della sua comprensione della religione. Tuttavia, come ci ha fatto notare recentemente Lucy Huskinson, ciò implica una scorretta lettura del lavoro di Otto nel quale si deve guardare al di là del luminoso (che è un elemento irrazionale della religione) verso il 'sacro' che, in quanto simbolo, tiene insieme sia gli aspetti irrazionali che quelli razionali dell'esperienza religiosa in un modo individualmente trasformativo. Tale modo di intendere il viaggio spirituale e psicologico viene sostenuto da materiali clinici nei quali una esperienza numinosa, che emerge nel contesto di una intensa psicoterapia analitica, si rivelò essere solo un primo passo in un processo che portò, attraverso un periodo di lutto, allo sviluppo della capacità del paziente di simbolizzare. Alla luce di ciò, l'autore pensa che il sacro debba essere cercato nella capacità di avere una certa qualità del relazionarsi simbolicamente, a se stesso o agli altri, che può essere o può non essere accompagnata dall'esperienza del numinoso. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR] |
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However, as Lucy Huskinson has recently pointed out, this involves a misreading of Otto's work in which we have to look beyond the numinous (which is the non-rational factor in religion) towards the ‘holy’ which, like a symbol, holds the rational and non-rational aspects of religious experience together in a personally transformative way. This understanding of the spiritual and psychological journey is supported by case material in which a numinous experience, arising in the context of intensive analytical psychotherapy, proved to be but the first step in a process which led, through a period of mourning, towards the development of the patient's capacity to symbolize. In the light of this, the author suggests that the sacred is to be found in the capacity for a certain quality of symbolic relatedness—to self and other—which may or may not be attended by numinous experience. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR] – Name: Abstract Label: Abstract (Spanish) Group: Ab Data: Jung tomó la idea de la 'numinoso ' de Rudolf Otto en el libro Das Heilige (ET La Idea de lo Sagrado) y lo hizo fundamental para su comprensión de la religión. Sin embargo, como Lucy Huskinson recientemente ha señalado, se trata de una interpretación errónea de la labor de Otto en la que tenemos que mirar más allá de lo numinoso (que es el factor no‐racional en la religión) en función de lo 'sagrado' el cual, similar a un símbolo, comprende aspectos racionales y no racionales de la experiencia religiosa integrados en una forma de transformación personal. Esta comprensión del viaje espiritual y psicológico es apoyado por el material de casos en donde una experiencia numinosa, surgiendo en el contexto de la psicoterapia analítica intensa, resultó ser sólo el primer paso en un proceso que condujo, a través de un período de duelo, hacia el desarrollo de la capacidad del paciente para simbolizar. A la luz de esto, el autor sugiere que lo sagrado se puede encontrar en la capacidad para entablar una cierta calidad de relación simbólica‐consigo mismo y con el otro‐ella puede o no ser tocada por la experiencia numinosa. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR] – Name: Abstract Label: Abstract (French) Group: Ab Data: Jung emprunta l'idée du numineux à l'ouvrage de Rudolf Otto Das Heilige et la plaça au centre de sa propre compréhension de la religion. Cependant, ainsi que l'a récemment souligné Lucy Huskinson, ceci suppose une méconnaissance du travail d'Otto, selon lequel il s'agit de regarder au‐delà du numineux (qui est le facteur non rationnel de la religion) et de viser le 'sacré' qui, comme un symbole, fait tenir ensemble les aspects rationnel et non rationnel de l'expérience religieuse, en un mouvement de transformation personnelle. Une telle compréhension du voyage spirituel et psychologique est étayée par un cas clinique; une expérience numineuse apparue au cours d'une psychothérapie analytique intensive s'avéra n'être que le premier pas d'un processus qui conduisit le patient, à travers une période de deuil, au développement de sa capacité symbolique. A partir de cet éclairage, l'auteur suggère que le sacré est à rechercher dans l'existence d'une certaine qualité d'aptitude relationnelle symbolique, à soi‐même et aux autres, que celle‐ci s'accompagne ou pas d'une expérience numineuse. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR] – Name: Abstract Label: Abstract (German) Group: Ab Data: Jung entnahm die Idee des 'Numinosen' dem Buch Rudolf Ottos, Das Heilige und machte sie zum Zentralpunkt seines Religionsverständnisses. Wie Lucie Huskinson kürzlich gezeigt hat, beinhaltet dies jedoch ein Fehlverständnis des Werkes Ottos, wo wir hinter das Numinose (welches der nichtrationale Faktor in der Religion ist) auf das 'Heilige' schauen müssen, welches, wie ein Symbol, die rationalen und nichtrationalen Aspekte der religiösen Erfahrung zusammenhält und auf je persönliche Weise umsetzt. Dieses Verständnis der spirituellen und psychologischen Reise wird durch Fallmaterial gestützt, in welchem eine numinose Erfahrung, die im Kontext einer intensiven analytischen Psychotherapie auftauchte, sich als erster Schritt erwies in einem Prozeß, der durch eine Phase der Trauer hindurch zur Entwicklung von Symbolisierungsfähigkeit beim Patienten führte. Auf diesem Hintergrund vermutet der Autor, daß das Heilige in der Fähigkeit zu einer bestimmten Qualität der symbolischen Beziehung – zum Selbst oder zu anderen, gesucht werden muß, wobei numinose Erfahrungen begleitend auftreten können, aber nicht müssen. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR] – Name: Abstract Label: Abstract (Italian) Group: Ab Data: Jung prese l'idea del 'numinoso' dal libro di Rudolf Otto 'L'idea del Sacro' e ne fece il centro della sua comprensione della religione. Tuttavia, come ci ha fatto notare recentemente Lucy Huskinson, ciò implica una scorretta lettura del lavoro di Otto nel quale si deve guardare al di là del luminoso (che è un elemento irrazionale della religione) verso il 'sacro' che, in quanto simbolo, tiene insieme sia gli aspetti irrazionali che quelli razionali dell'esperienza religiosa in un modo individualmente trasformativo. Tale modo di intendere il viaggio spirituale e psicologico viene sostenuto da materiali clinici nei quali una esperienza numinosa, che emerge nel contesto di una intensa psicoterapia analitica, si rivelò essere solo un primo passo in un processo che portò, attraverso un periodo di lutto, allo sviluppo della capacità del paziente di simbolizzare. Alla luce di ciò, l'autore pensa che il sacro debba essere cercato nella capacità di avere una certa qualità del relazionarsi simbolicamente, a se stesso o agli altri, che può essere o può non essere accompagnata dall'esperienza del numinoso. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR] – Name: AbstractSuppliedCopyright Label: Group: Ab Data: <i>Copyright of Journal of Analytical Psychology is the property of Wiley-Blackwell and its content may not be copied or emailed to multiple sites without the copyright holder's express written permission. Additionally, content may not be used with any artificial intelligence tools or machine learning technologies. However, users may print, download, or email articles for individual use. This abstract may be abridged. No warranty is given about the accuracy of the copy. Users should refer to the original published version of the material for the full abstract.</i> (Copyright applies to all Abstracts.) |
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