Biomedical subjects

S Ongenae

Publications and source records attributed to S Ongenae.

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PubMed1990

[From virginity to mysticism].

Through a clinical observation illustrated with a borderline state described by Bergeret and in a variety of nervous breakdown, the problem of narcissism is set through the quest for an ultimate and an idealization. With the arrival of a late and disorganizing traumatism, is realized an exchange between a narcissic ideal (pureness/virginity) and a megalomaniac one (mysticity). It is the punctual established fact of a cure of a narcissic loss (loss of virginity) by a narcissic recival (God). Virginity represents the main concept of an original ideal by with are established the different axes of a narcissic problem: sexuality-death-religion, where every word seems to have several meanings through these three values.

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[Prayer, an intermediary world].

Prayer, considered under its theological aspect as a love relation between the orant and God becomes, under a psychopathological point of view, deviated as it is from its original aim, a space of potential cure for narcissistic wounds. In this sense, prayer is a kind of intermediary world between normality and madness, which according to the religious ideas of the individual and the importance of his mental disorders, tends towards one or the other of these extremes, and makes his defences operative. It happens therefore that Faith, as materialized in prayer, can be a mean to save oneself of mental morbidity. Prayer is an intricate phenomenon which originates in the multiple dimensions of the human being, where religion, psychology, morals, pathology and metaphysics confront each other.

Christianity↗