Absence of spirituality and sociosis: Van den Berg and the psychology ofreligion

• Autor(a) principal: Storck, Igor
• Data de Publicação: 2020
• Outros Autores: Holanda, Adriano Furtado
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Memorandum (Belo Horizonte)
• Texto Completo: https://periodicos.ufmg.br/index.php/memorandum/article/view/14842
• topic: Van den Berg; Inconsciente; Sociose; Espiritualidade; Van Den Berg; inconscious; spirituality; sociosis

In this article, we seek to recover central perceptions of the works of Dutch psychiatrist and psychologist Jan Hendrik Van den Berg; the way he understands the unconscious, his re-reading of neurosis, proposing his terminological substitution to sociosis, and broadening the meaning contained in the term, allowing valuable reflections and deep interlocutions with the psychology of religion. If in the Freudian era the unconsciousness of sexuality and of aggressiveness provoked very specific syndromic cases, the sociosis faced by the subject is the oblivion of spirituality. The psychiatrist advocates that spirituality as a human dimension, as long as it keeps being neglected by society, will continue to produce emptied, mediocre people who do not recognize their place in the world and cannot develop good social relationships. Much is endorsed of Van den Berg's perception when he points out the current historical moment of redemption of spirituality since, as a human dimension, as well as sexuality, it should be reintegrated to existence.