O Caminho da Cura Interior Adesão Religiosa e Reinvenção Pessoal, na Conexão: Subjetividade e Nova Postura Ética

Abstract

What is going to be read focuses on the study of the reasons which drive people to decide to join in the Catholic Charismatic Renovation. It involves an interdisciplinary discussion on the understanding of the process the subject goes through in the joining in dynamics. It is, therefore, with the instruments from the social sciences and psychology, as well as the Freudian psychoanalyses, that this work is achieved, understanding that the categories of this theoretical approach complement each other in the understanding of the joining in process in its full length. The conscious and unconscious subjectivity supporting the joining in and the new ethical posture, consequence of the process, constitute the study s driving force. Thus, the dialectic man in Freud and Durkheim, in his partiality of fragility and might, determines the empirical work and the analytical conclusions. The subjective motivation is discussed as the attracting force, that determines the religious transit to CCR and the permanence of the faithful in this group, which is in the process itself. The identifications accomplished are presented, as well as the renewed identities, the redefined self-images, to lead to new ethical option. The man who lives this process is identified in his dichotomy between fragility and reactivity, between helplessness and the omnipotent attitude. Fragile because he suffers and is reactive in his individual and collective moral strength, as sees Durkheim. Constitutionally helpless and defending himself from that with a megalomaniac instinct, in Freud s view. This man wants relief from suffering and seeks in CCR the cure for his illnesses. The approach of the charismatic offering turns to the possibility of responding to the expectations of the faithful. It reflects itself on the transformations of the adherents and the possible points of intersection between the therapeutics of the CCR and psychology s ordinary psychotherapies. In the effort to understand the phenomenon of the subject s reconstruction, from the joining in the charismatic renovation movement, the contributions psychology can add to this study are also numbered, as well as the subsidies it can receive in a feedback basis in its task to elucidate man s psychical dimension.