[The application and effect of analytically oriented, professional continuing education - using Protestant clergymen as an example].

Abstract

The following analysis reveals a hermeneutic application of psychoanalysis in the social field, as well as showing the results of this practice in the form of information about a profession. The method causes these two aspects to be interwowen. The generally accepted motive for this kind of speculative research (= not purely empirical research) emerges, immediately, when analytically orientated and professionally orientated further education are to be conceptualized; for methods condense out of the work, contents, aims, and actual conditions. The extent of control of counter-transference and defence analysis in various work-contexts is introduced: in the contract of further training (as a concretion of career-identification), in exegesis (as the central professional activity of protestant theologists, especially clergymen), in socio-cultural comprehension of collective professional duties and aims. The conflict-centred analysis of excerpts from the Bible reveals possible solutions ranging from the regressive to the mature. These are reflected in the interpreter's unconscious, preconscious, and conscious mind, and they infiltrate his mediation work and relations with the public. This result is highlighted from a cultural-historical point of view. Finally, there follows a review of the possibilities of application in other professions.