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The sublime vocation: about the relation between religion and sublimation on the determination of the religious vocation

This essay asks for the relation between the Freudian concept of sublimation and his possible application for understanding of religion’s psychic importance by the constitution of religious vocation. The proposed hypothesis means that the defending mechanism of sublimation is responsible for the most part of the psychological relevancy of religion on the determination of the religious vocation.

Sublimation; Religious Vocation; Religion; Psychology of Religion


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