George F. Handel’s “How Beautiful Are the Feet” as Transformational Object: An Autobiographical Account

Using Christopher Bollas’s concept of transformational object, the author reflects on George F. Handel’s “How Beautiful Are the Feet” as a song that has sustained him and informed his vocational self-understanding as a pastoral theologian. The author reflects on the role of his mother and paternal a...

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Main Author: Arjona, Rubén (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Published: Springer Science Business Media B. V. [2020]
In: Pastoral psychology
Year: 2020, Volume: 69, Issue: 2, Pages: 87-98
Further subjects:B Christopher Bollas
B Handel’s Messiah
B Transformational objects
B Paul Pruyser
B Aunting
B Hope
Online Access: Volltext (Verlag)
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Summary:Using Christopher Bollas’s concept of transformational object, the author reflects on George F. Handel’s “How Beautiful Are the Feet” as a song that has sustained him and informed his vocational self-understanding as a pastoral theologian. The author reflects on the role of his mother and paternal aunts in fostering a model of care that instilled in him a sense of hope. The author concludes by reflecting on the kinetic quality of pastoral theology and the need to reclaim an agile, even playful understanding of hope.
ISSN:1573-6679
Contains:Enthalten in: Pastoral psychology
Persistent identifiers:DOI: 10.1007/s11089-020-00894-6