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Ignatius of Loyola - The Psychology of a Saint (Paperback, New Ed)
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Ignatius of Loyola - The Psychology of a Saint (Paperback, New Ed)
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Ignatius of Loyola-knight and saint, mystic and ascetic, founder of
the Society of Jesus (the Jesuits)-was one of the greatest figures
in Western Christianity. This book, written by a
psychiatrist-psychoanalyst who is also a Jesuit, is the first work
to look behind the events, accounts, and documents of Ignatius'
life and religious experience in order to enter and understand his
inner world. W. W. Meissner writes compassionately about Ignatius'
origins, early development, conversion, years of prayer and
penance, mystical teaching and career, and finally his efforts to
found and direct the Society of Jesus. Dr. Meissner not only places
Ignatius' life against the background of the radical religious,
social, and political upheaval of the sixteenth century but goes
beyond this to explore the psychic and psychodynamic inner
processes that transformed the man into the saint. Dr. Meissner
discusses, for example, Ignatius' ordeals of body and spirit during
his career as a soldier, his conversion experience, the evolution
of his personality after conversion, his relationships with women,
his lifelong struggles to overcome his aggressive, narcissistic,
and libidinal impulses, and the psychology and pathology of his
mysticism. The complex personality of this great saint and the
profundity of his personal and spiritual struggles bring into focus
significant questions about the complex interplay between human
motivations and needs on the one hand and religious experience and
spiritual motivation on the other. The book is not only a biography
of a much-revered figure of the Roman Catholic Church but a unique
contribution to both psychoanalysis and religious history.
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