RT Article
T1 Repression and sublimation in religious personalities
JF Journal of religion and health
VO 21
IS 2
SP 152
OP 170
A1 Gay, Volney Patrick 1948-
LA English
YR 1982
UL https://ixtheo.de/Record/1669166252
AB Like all intense experiencing, religious life is particular: one's feelings are tied to specific people, through specific actions, and in specific contexts. Descriptive typologies, like that of Capps and Capps inThe Religious Personality, reflect the contours of specific selfunderstanding, but by themselves they do not permit one to compare hierarchically the types that sare uncovered. Abstract theoreies, like psychoanalysis, are not particularistic, but they do permit one to conceive of a hierarchy of mental functioning. Capps and Capps's typology of Aesthetic, Chastised, Resigned, and Dfraternal religious selves can be improved by placing each self along the continuum that stretches from repressed (maladaptive) to sublimated (adaptive) functioning.
K1 Mental Functioning
K1 Religious Life
K1 Religious Personality
K1 Specific Context
K1 Specific People
DO 10.1007/BF02276779