Antoine Vergote

Antoon Vergote ( born December 8, 1921 in Kortrijk, Flanders, † October 10, 2013 in Leuven), also known as Antoine Vergote, was a Belgian priest, psychologist and theologian.

Life and career

Vergote was one of the pioneers of the psychology of religion in Europe and has founded, among others, the Center for Psychology of Religion of Leuven (Belgium ) and passed. He was a doctor of theology and philosophy, has worked as a psychoanalyst in his life and co-founder of the Belgian school of psychoanalysis.

The timeliness of the considerations Vergotes arises not only from the impassable embossing through the psychic processes in each of us, especially through the Oedipus problem. It also relates to their contribution to the dialogue between faith and contemporary culture, their emphasis on the structuring role of fatherhood in a context in which this role is in a crisis, and its contribution to the thought of the specific feature and the essence of biblical faith in inter-religious context.

The consideration of psychoanalysis has led to Vergote, again and again to emphasize the essential dimensions of the relationship with God, did not consider the metaphysical theology sufficient: the adoption of a child; the structuring role of the paternal law and the conflictuality that it implies; the theologal intersubjectivity; revelation as speech act.

Works (selection)

Although Vergote Belgian and Flemish language was his mother, his numerous interdisciplinary publications are written mainly in French. Of these, a whole series into English, Italian or Spanish are translated.

German-speaking

  • Vergote, A., Clinical Psychology extraordinary religious experience, in: Henning, AD / Belzen, J. van (ed.), Crazy for God. How to deal with extraordinary religious phenomena in psychology, psychotherapy and theology, Paderborn / Munich / Vienna / Zurich 2007, 79-92.
  • Trans., Art Psychology of Religion, Evangelical Church Lexicon 3, Göttingen 1992, 1587-1592.
  • . Writings, New Perspectives in Religious Studies, in: T. Rendtorff (ed.), Religion as a problem of education, Göttingen, Cambridge University Press, 1980, 36-51.
  • Writings, Religion -. Image of God. Results of empirical research, in: T. Rendtorff (ed.), Religion as a problem of education, Göttingen, Cambridge University Press, 1980, 221-245.
  • Trans., The contribution of psychoanalysis to exegesis. Life, Law and ego splitting in the 7th chapter of Romans, in: Léon- Dufour, X. ( eds.), Exegesis methods conflict. Between history and structure, Munich 1973, 73-116.
  • Writings, impartiality in faith, in: . Buytendijk, Frederik JJ / Langeveld, Martinus January / Vergote, Antoon, his Blank endeavor as a way to self-realization, Cologne, published by JP Bachem, 1973, 65-95.
  • . Writings, A., The man of today as recipients of the message, in: Dreher, B. / Greinacher, N. / Klostermann, F. ( ed.), Handbook of the Annunciation, Freiburg, 1970, 11-53.

English and French Speaking

  • Trans., Guilt and desire. Religious Attitudes and Their Pathological Derivations, New Haven 1987. ( Dette et désir. Deux axes chrétiens et la dérive pathologique, Paris 1978).
  • Trans., Religion, Belief and Unbelief. A Psychological Study, Leuven 1996. (Religion, foi, incroyance. Étude psychologique, Liège 1983).
  • Trans., Psychoanalysis, Phenomenological Anthropology and Religion, Leuven / Amsterdam / Atlanta 1998.
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