Jesus and Object-Use: A Winnicottian Account of the Resurrection Myth

From: PSYART | Date: January 1, 2006| Author: Hopkins, Brooke | Copyright information

This paper accounts for the power of the resurrection myth in terms of Winnicott's theories of early development, particularly the "development of the capacity for concern" and the idea of "object-use" that grew out of it. The myth of the resurrection allows those who participate in it to reenact basic developmental processes, beginning with the infant's relation to its mother and extending to transference relationships of other sorts, which can lead to the capacity to "use" objects (persons ...

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