| Summary: | 碩士 === 慈濟大學 === 宗教與人文研究所 === 104 === Abstract
The religious ultimate concern is to liberate one from all kinds of suffering, with promoting the practice of altruism. The combination of religious doctrine and ones individual experience may produce an important identification element in his personality structure, and also facilitates the deformation of one’s early experience, such as basic psychological position state and early fantasy. However, whether one’s conflict experience and libidinal energy, could modify into an alternative but similar repetition pattern through repression and sublimation, or become symptoms?
We reveal the description of self in religious experience, in some extent, maintains the integration of ego structure, however the pathological parts in ego structure may be strengthen by sublimation, such as messianic complex, a psychological state that identified himself as a savior, and which is common seen in religious society. Although one’s description of divine experience increases his integration of self, his reality testing capacity is often distorted, and this could have lead to an odd and rigid interpersonal pattern. Ex: Schizotypal personality disorder. Which consequently result in an impasse in psychotherapy.
This pilot study assumes puer aeternus, borderline personality disorder, the sense of guilt in religion, are related to the absence of primary object, and which has long-term effect on one’s identification of self and ego integration. Hence, this study creates a dynamic model of personality through various psychoanalysis theories and clinical practice experience, in order to promote a specific phenomenon in personality oscillation and counterbalance pattern, whereby illustrating the overlap and difference between psychopathological delusion and mystical experience, and generate assumptions for future empirical studies.
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