From the Earth We Came: Recognizing the Ecological Self in Dislocation and Pastoral Theology
Pastoral theology has often avoided major approaches to the ecological self. This article traces such avoidance in the field’s dependence on classical psychoanalysis, while also pointing toward the formation of the ecological connections to self, particularly probing the heightened and overtly exhib...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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Springer Science Business Media B. V.
2023
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Pastoral psychology
Year: 2023, Volume: 72, Issue: 2, Pages: 205-224 |
| Further subjects: | B
Ecological self
B Environmental dislocation B Pastoral Theology B The oceanic |
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| Summary: | Pastoral theology has often avoided major approaches to the ecological self. This article traces such avoidance in the field’s dependence on classical psychoanalysis, while also pointing toward the formation of the ecological connections to self, particularly probing the heightened and overtly exhibited disruptions of a person from their known environmental context within dislocation. Attending to the ecological self draws from the psychoanalytic examination of environmental dislocation by Arne Næss and Salman Akhtar to uphold relations between embodied experience and ecological personhood. While psychoanalytical roots to care considered unitive experiences of self and culture with religion and nature as problematic, possibilities abound as we care for those dislocated, linking how religious practice orients and activates emotions and bodies to resist ecological depletion and our own ecological displacement. |
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| ISSN: | 1573-6679 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Pastoral psychology
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1007/s11089-023-01055-1 |