The Transition from Object Faith to Personal Faith: Transitional Subjects
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- 作者：Ryan Williams LaMothe
- 关键词：Transitional subjects ; Transitional objects ; Faith ; Person ; God representations
- 刊名：Pastoral Psychology
- 出版时间：October 2010
- 出版年：2010
- 期刊代码：49_00312789
- 类别：law
- 卷：59
- 期：5
- 页码：617-630
- 数据来源：sp
摘要
In this article, I argue that human beings begin life with an object faith, which is conditioned by the personal faith of good enough parents. The infant initially uses transitional objects as faith objects to negotiate the vicissitudes of internal and external reality. The infant’s use of transitional objects as faith objects is dependent on and supported by the parent’s personal faith, which facilitates the infant’s belief in and experience of being an-end-in-her/himself-as-a-me-subject-object—existential aliveness. Later, the child makes use of transitional subjects in learning to subordinate object recognition to personal recognition, as well as to begin to handle the life long challenges of interpersonal intimacy and vulnerability. The parent’s consistent recognition and treatment of the child as a person, as well as timely repairs of relational disruptions, make possible the child’s belief in and experience of being-an-end-in-her/himself-as-a-person-with-other-persons. God representations may function as transitional subjects, serving to secure, maintain, and support forms of interpersonal relations—fellowship, friendship, community, etc.