Antoon Vergote

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Antoon 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 founded and directed the Center for Psychology of Religion in Leuven ( Belgium ). He was a doctor of theology and philosophy , worked as a psychoanalyst throughout his life and co-founded the Belgian school of psychoanalysis.

The topicality of Vergote's considerations results not only from the insurmountable influence of the psychological processes in each of us, especially the Oedipus problem. It also relates to its contribution to the dialogue between faith and contemporary culture, its emphasis on the structuring role of fatherhood in a context where that role is in crisis, and its contribution to the idea of ​​the specific specificity and essence of biblical faith in an interreligious context.

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

Works (selection)

Although Vergote was Belgian and his mother tongue was Flemish, his numerous interdisciplinary publications are mainly written in French. Quite a few of these have been translated into English, Italian or Spanish.

German speaking

  • Vergote, A., Clinical Psychology of Extraordinary Religious Experience, in: Henning, Chr. / Belzen, J. van (ed.), Crazy about God. On dealing with extraordinary religious phenomena in psychology, psychotherapy and theology , Paderborn / Munich / Vienna / Zurich 2007, 79–92.
  • Ders., Art. Psychology of Religion, Evangelisches Kirchenlexikon 3, Göttingen 1992, 1587–1592.
  • Ders., New Perspectives in Religious Studies, in: T. Rendtorff (Ed.), Religion as a Problem of Enlightenment , Göttingen, Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 1980, 36–51.
  • Ders., Religion - Image of God. Results of empirical research, in: T. Rendtorff (Ed.), Religion as a problem of the Enlightenment , Göttingen, Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 1980, 221–245.
  • Ders., The Contribution of Psychoanalysis to Exegesis. Life, law and division of the ego in the 7th chapter of Romans, in: Léon-Dufour, X. (ed.), Exegese im Methodenkonflikt. Between history and structure , Munich 1973, 73–116.
  • Ders., Uninhibitedness in Faith, in: Buytendijk, Frederik JJ / Langeveld, Martinus Jan / Vergote, Antoon, Uninhibited as a way to self-realization , Cologne, Verlag JP Bachem, 1973, 65–95.
  • Ders., A., Today's human being as a recipient of the message, in: Dreher, B. / Greinacher, N. / Klostermann, F. (ed.), Handbuch der Verkendung, Freiburg 1970, 11–53.
  • Ders., Psychology of Religion , Olten / Freiburg 1970.

English and French speaking

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

literature

Jean-Baptiste Lecuit, L'Anthropologie théologique à la lumière de la psychanalyse. La contribution majeure d'Antoine Vergote , Paris, Cerf, 2007, ISBN 2-204-08429-8

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Obituary notice (PDF; 57 kB)
  2. ↑ theo-psy , and Jean-Baptiste Lecuit, L'Anthropologie théologique à la lumière de la psychanalyse. La contribution majeure d'Antoine Vergote , Paris, Cerf, 2007, pp. 18-22
  3. ↑ Center for Religious Psychology ( Memento from September 24, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) on Uclouvain.be (accessed April 4, 2010)
  4. ↑ Website on BSP-EHP.be (accessed on April 4, 2010)
  5. ^ "Biografía", in: Doctor Honoris Causa. Dr D. Antoine Vergote , Universidad Pontificia de Salamanca, 2005, pp. 15-19
  6. ↑ JB Lecuit: L'Anthropologie théologique à la lumière de la psychanalyse. Pp. 507-594.

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personal data
SURNAME Vergote, Antoon
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Vergote, Antoine
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Belgian priest, theologian and psychologist
DATE OF BIRTH December 8, 1921
PLACE OF BIRTH Kortrijk , Belgium
DATE OF DEATH October 10th, 2013
Place of death Leuven , Belgium