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A Study of Obsessional Life and Compassionate Life in the light of Spiritual Theory and Object Relations Theory

  • Journal of Counseling and Gospel
  • Abbr : Jocag
  • 2008, 11(), pp.94-114
  • DOI : 10.17841/jocag.2008.11..94
  • Publisher : Korean Evangelical Counseling Society
  • Research Area : Humanities > Christian Theology > Pastoral Counseling
  • Received : September 30, 2008
  • Accepted : November 12, 2008

Kim Hong Keun 1

1한세대학교

ABSTRACT

There is no freedom in all kinds of life with obsession. That kind of life cannot afford to laugh, to listen carefully, and to experience about connection and unity, because there is less flexibility. The passion about obsession with morality, uprightness, achievement disturbs to share and reduce others’pain. Pursuit of‘ Letting Be’and‘ Letting Go’in spiritual life makes different life pattern in contrast with obsessional life. The contrastive life pattern from spiritual life and obsessional life like these: Autonomy & Automatization, Creativity & Rigidity, Humor & Seriousness, Empathy & Apathy. Pursuit of life pattern like Autonomy, Creativity, Humor, Empathy can experience healing to life pattern from obsessional life. The comparative study of evil influences from obsessional life and good influences from spiritual life based on compassion with ‘Letting Be’& ‘Letting Go’can bring us the meaning of true life. In this research, the writer will define the meaning of spiritual life based on compassion, rather than find approach to the curative means about distorted life of obsessional Christians. Particularly the writer uses the tools of Object Relations Theory and Spiritual Theology for a comparative study of spiritual life and obsessional life.

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