The will to be known: Toward a pastoral anthropology of the self

Explores the concept of the will to be known as a metaphor for the self as process in relationship. Dietrich Bonhoeffer's theological anthropology and Heinz Kohut's self psychology provide the background for a multilingual pastoral anthropology that transcends a narrow focus upon the self as an autonomous unit of meaning. The discussions attends to four dimensions of the will to be known and to dynamics of shame within the emergence and existence of the relational self.