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fænomenologiske variationer over et religiøst tema

Abstract

Parts of a manuscript, on which the author is presently working, are presented and discussed. The manuscript as a whole is an elaboration on the concept of Guiding Images, i.e. 'packages' of phenomenal material, that client-systems may internalize and
make practical use of in the context of psycho-social professional helping relationships (therapy, consultation etc.). The writing process, that brought the manuscript into being, was itself energized through the emergence of a wealth of concrete guiding images in the form of night dreams or complex verbal 'messages' with which the author supplied himself in a kind of quasi-professionel, but non-conscious self-help relationship. Amongst these guiding images, many had a marked religious colouring, and they are the ones presented in the article. The text is structured through seven consecutive headlines, each of which is a tentative programmatic statement concerning the nature of God or holiness within the article's personal-phenomenological perspective.