This book explores the 1907 Korean Revival Movement from a self psychological perspective. The examination of the psychological processes in the movement based on Heinz Kohut's self psychology can shed light on religious experiences as selfobject experiences by identifying the sense of defeatedness and helplessness that Korean people experienced under Japanese occupation as what Kohut calls self-fragmentation of the Korean group self and explaining its therapeutic functions which facilitate potential for the narcissistic nourishment of the fragmented group self leading to renewed self-esteem, transformation, and empowerment of the Korean people. Korean people in the early 1900s experienced abuses and oppression by corrupt officials and exploitation by Japanese government. Through religious experiences which emphasized the individual repentance, the experience of God through the spirit, emphasis on prayer, and eschatological faith, the Korean Revival Movement in 1907 enabled its followers to experience mirroring and idealizing selfobjects which function as a role of transforming the lower shape of narcissism into the higher one.

Carefully examines human religious conduct in the 1907 Korean Revival Movement by accounting for the emotional origin and psychological motivation Explains how religious experiences and theological idea of the Movement fortified the psychological health of the Korean people Examines the emotional origin of the religious behavior and experiences with the context of a historical event

Autorentext

Jung Eun Jang is Assistant Professor at Ewha Womans University, South Korea, who is teaching pastoral care and counseling in the department of Christian Studies. He is an ordained pastor of the Korean Presbyterian Church, as well as a Nationally Certified Psychoanalyst(NCPsyA), certified by NAAP (National Association for the Advancement of Psychoanalysis).

Inhalt
Psychological Analysis of the 1907 Revival Movement .- Kohut's Self Psychology: Selfobject and Selfobject Experiences .- The Korean Group Self and the Joseon Dynasty .- The Selfobject Functions of the 1907 Revival Movement .- Korean Christianity and the Korean Groups Self .- Conclusion: Sublimation, Oceanic Feeling, and the Selfobject.