Desacralizing Life and its Mystery: The Jonah Complex Revisited
| Autor: | Pierre-E. Lacocque |
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| Rok vydání: | 1982 |
| Předmět: |
Maslow's hierarchy of needs
Psychoanalysis business.industry Interpretation (philosophy) media_common.quotation_subject 05 social sciences Religious studies Art history 050109 social psychology Temptation medicine.disease 030227 psychiatry Moral imperative Personal development 03 medical and health sciences 0302 clinical medicine medicine 0501 psychology and cognitive sciences Meaning (existential) Psychology business Jonah complex Social responsibility General Psychology media_common |
| Zdroj: | Journal of Psychology and Theology. 10:113-119 |
| ISSN: | 2328-1162 0091-6471 |
| Popis: | This paper reexamines the psychological conditions giving rise to the temptation to run away from social responsibilities and personal growth (the “Jonah complex”). Abraham Maslow is here criticized for his self-actualization theory and his narrow interpretation of the Jonah complex. He sees the latter as a fear of God-like possibilities in ourselves but does not connect it to a rejection of the universal moral imperative to love and respect all that lives. It is argued that what lies at the roots of the Jonah Complex are two basic psychological prods: The first is the fear of death, and the second is the desacralization of life and the trivialization of its meaning. |
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