Transitional phenomena as evidenced in prayer |
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Authors: | Marilyn S. Saur Ph.D. William G. Saur Ph.D. |
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Affiliation: | (1) Chapel Hill, North Carolina;(2) University of North Carolina School of Medicine, USA;(3) Chapel Hill and Durham, North Carolina;(4) Duke University Medical Center, USA |
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Abstract: | In this paper, we demonstrate that the study of prayer facilitates understanding of the deeply personal object related nature of religious experience. Within prayer, individuals enter the transitional sphere and meet their God representation. Both conscious and unconscious aspects of prayer can be made available through the use of a projective test developed by the authors, known as STARR: Spiritual Themes and Religious Responses test. The data obtained suggest the usefulness of Winnicottian concepts of transitional phenomena, playing, communicating, and capacity to be alone as a contemporary psychoanalytic framework for interpreting religious experience. |
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