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KMID : 0368920160310010001
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Shim-Song Yon-Gu
2016 Volume.31 No. 1 p.1 ~ p.40
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A Perspective of Analytical Psychology on ‘Yeondo’, a Prayer for Souls in Purgatory of Korean Catholic Church
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Yeo Chun-Ja
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Abstract
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This thesis is a study on the symbolism of ‘Yeondo`, a prayer for the souls in purgatory of Korean Catholic Church as a ‘psychic container` for the spiri-tual transformation in the psyche from a perspective of analytical psychology. Yeondo` could be the ‘rites of passage` of the last judgement for the souls in purgatory which is in between the heaven and the hell. And both the bereaved and the dead go through the stages of separation, transition and incorporation which are the schema of the ‘rites of passage`. In particular, they have a spe-cial sense of solidarity at the stage of transition, a middle state. The symbolic process of ‘Yeondo` is a spiritual transformation of recovery of paradise which could access by the confusion of death, purification and the rebirth. A spiritual reborn process of death and rebirth takes place by contacting the col-lective unconscious. In ‘Yeondo`, the death is not the end of life but the begin-ning of the eternal life. The confusion and disintegration caused by death can be purified and start incorporating. The rites of a paradise recovery has the meaning of trying constantly for the recovery of a wholeness. Praying for the blessing of God and a help from saints in paradise for the sake of the dead means to require conscious cooperation for the Self-realiza-tion. Integrating and recognizing unconscious also means something beyond the conscious. The blessed souls in purgatory recovers the paradise experience-ing specific purifying process heading towards Self. Going into the center, abyss of unconscious will be recognized as an absolute part of oneself. One becomes the inner man, the transformed personality who is reached by the path of self-knowledge, the kingdom of heaven within oneself and can have the transpersonal energy, which enables to access to God s world and union with God. All desire and the will become one with God. In the final analysis, praying for the blessing of God and a help from saints in paradise for the sake of the dead becomes the path for the more and more conscious expansion of the alive. Therefore, ‘Yeondo` as an initiation is the individuation process of the alive and the dead to reflect on themselves.
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KEYWORD
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Yeondo, Purgatory, Purification, Rebirth, Individuation
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