Mourning, Melancholy, and Humor: Psychotheology in Freud and Söderblom1
This article aims at exploring the means for and hope of overcoming trauma, that is, violent emotional shock, through the use of humor and theology in conjunction. Both humor and the experience of the hope of some kind of redemption are ways of transcending the given. But is such overcoming possible...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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| Interlibrary Loan: | Interlibrary Loan for the Fachinformationsdienste (Specialized Information Services in Germany) |
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[2017]
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Dialog
Year: 2017, Volume: 56, Issue: 4, Pages: 402-411 |
| IxTheo Classification: | KAJ Church history 1914-; recent history KDD Protestant Church NBE Anthropology ZD Psychology |
| Further subjects: | B
psychotheology
B psychoanalysis and theology B humor and theology B Luther B Trauma |
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| Summary: | This article aims at exploring the means for and hope of overcoming trauma, that is, violent emotional shock, through the use of humor and theology in conjunction. Both humor and the experience of the hope of some kind of redemption are ways of transcending the given. But is such overcoming possible without illusion or escapism? These issues are explored through the psychotheological perspectives on humor in the psychoanalyst Sigmund Freud and the Swedish archbishop and theologian Nathan Söderblom. |
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| ISSN: | 1540-6385 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Dialog
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1111/dial.12360 |