Add to ORKGThis paper aims to explore, within a contemporary psychoanalytic framework, the meaning of two historically related concepts: demonic possession and evil. These dramatic and age-old portrayals of psychological abnormality are worth investigating for two reasons; firstly, because of their persistence within a Western culture ostensibly dominated by rational and scientific discourses and, secondly, because their supernatural status has traditionally served to insulate them from secular psychological interpretation. This paper will argue that evil and demonic possession are useful metaphors for understanding destructive aspects of human psychological functioning, and that, despite their historical location in supernatural discourses, they are ...
This purpose of this text or dissertation is to throw some basic light on a fundamental problem conc...
Purpose: Starting from the classic definition of “demonic possession” (as a psychophysical condition...
The idea that belief in magic, witchcraft and demons has inherently to do with extreme emotions is o...
The focus of this article is on the individual's specific experience of his personality being posses...
Regardless of time period or culture, certain beliefs persist in the human psyche. The notion that a...
The notion of the 'Satanic' has been a dominant trope within Western folkconceptions of evil. The t...
Evil is a concept traditionally alien to psychoanalytic discourse. Using a Kleinian framework it is...
Evil is a concept traditionally alien to psychoanalytic discourse.\ud Using a Kleinian framework it ...
The focus of this article is on the individual's specific experience of his personality being posses...
Depictions of the mentally ill, even in the modern media, have often been reduced to a trope of demo...
The focus of this article is on the individual's specific experience of his personality being posses...
This purpose of this text or dissertation is to throw some basic light on a fundamental problem conc...
The representations appear in all types of mythology in forms which come more or less from the devil...
This purpose of this text or dissertation is to throw some basic light on a fundamental problem conc...
The visible growth in possession and exorcism in Southern Africa can, amongst others, be attributed ...
This purpose of this text or dissertation is to throw some basic light on a fundamental problem conc...
Purpose: Starting from the classic definition of “demonic possession” (as a psychophysical condition...
The idea that belief in magic, witchcraft and demons has inherently to do with extreme emotions is o...
The focus of this article is on the individual's specific experience of his personality being posses...
Regardless of time period or culture, certain beliefs persist in the human psyche. The notion that a...
The notion of the 'Satanic' has been a dominant trope within Western folkconceptions of evil. The t...
Evil is a concept traditionally alien to psychoanalytic discourse. Using a Kleinian framework it is...
Evil is a concept traditionally alien to psychoanalytic discourse.\ud Using a Kleinian framework it ...
The focus of this article is on the individual's specific experience of his personality being posses...
Depictions of the mentally ill, even in the modern media, have often been reduced to a trope of demo...
The focus of this article is on the individual's specific experience of his personality being posses...
This purpose of this text or dissertation is to throw some basic light on a fundamental problem conc...
The representations appear in all types of mythology in forms which come more or less from the devil...
This purpose of this text or dissertation is to throw some basic light on a fundamental problem conc...
The visible growth in possession and exorcism in Southern Africa can, amongst others, be attributed ...
This purpose of this text or dissertation is to throw some basic light on a fundamental problem conc...
Purpose: Starting from the classic definition of “demonic possession” (as a psychophysical condition...
The idea that belief in magic, witchcraft and demons has inherently to do with extreme emotions is o...