Union Theological Seminary, New York, NY, USA.
J Relig Health. 2012 Sep;51(3):701-8. doi: 10.1007/s10943-012-9581-1.
This article will address the devastating psychological and social effects due to the loss of one's primary love-object, namely God in the case of faith communities and religious individuals. By using Melanie Klein's Object Relations Theory (Klein in Envy and gratitude and other works 1946/1963. The Free Press, New York, 1975a) as a way to enter the text of Lamentations, I will articulate an alternative reading that can serve as a model for Pastors and Educators to use when walking with individuals and communities through unspeakable losses. I will argue that Lamentations may be used as a tool for naming confounding depression and anxiety that stems from a damaged introjected object (one's personal God). This tool may provide individuals and communities a framework for placing anger and contempt upon God in order to re-assimilate this loved yet hated object, eventually leading toward healing and restoration of the self.
本文将探讨因失去主要爱的对象（在信仰群体和宗教个体中是上帝）而带来的毁灭性心理和社会影响。通过使用梅兰妮·克莱因的客体关系理论（Klein in Envy and gratitude and other works 1946/1963. The Free Press, New York, 1975a）来进入《耶利米哀歌》的文本，我将阐述一种替代阅读，它可以作为牧师和教育工作者在与个人和社区一起经历难以言喻的损失时使用的一种模式。我认为，《耶利米哀歌》可以用作一种工具，来描述源自受损的内射客体（个人的上帝）的令人困惑的抑郁和焦虑。这个工具可以为个人和社区提供一个框架，将愤怒和轻蔑指向上帝，以便重新整合这个既被爱的又被恨的客体，最终走向自我的疗愈和恢复。
