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God in Depth

Psychology as Theology
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Introducing defragmentation theology, God in Depth explores the various ways in which the Bible portrays the divine system as an interplay of psychological forces that must be examined, comprehended, and integrated into consciousness. Approached from Jungian perspectives, the journey of the Hebrew God toward heightened awareness revolves around the conjunction of opposites: Logos and Eros, reason and relatedness, the shadow and the self, the masculine and the feminine, solar attributes and lunar sensitivities, destructive urges and mature benevolence. In many cases, biblical literature and adjacent texts, most notably rabbinic and kabbalistic interpretations, portray God as a fragmented deity navigating conflicting emotions, conflicting aspirations, and conflicting visions of creation. A series of narrative-changing encounters with biblical women allow God to project the neglected, repressed, or unconscious dimensions of the divine system onto human counterparts. With the withdrawal of these projections, God acknowledges the autonomy of biblical figures and recognizes them as external manifestations of internal struggles. The role of humanity, according to this theology, is to witness and facilitate the defragmentation of God: the steady growth of the divine system toward a greater degree of psychological totality.
Gilad Elbom is the author of Kabbalah as Literature: The Revolution of Interpretation (Fortress, 2024) and Textual Rivalries: Jesus, Midrash, and Kabbalah (Fortress, 2022). He is a graduate of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Otis College of Art and Design in Los Angeles, and the University of North Dakota. He teaches biblical literature and contemporary Middle Eastern fiction at Oregon State University.
1. Eve and the Moon: The Projection of the Divine Anima 2. Hagar and the Hag: God Learns What Women Desire 3. The Mediatrix and the Masses: Reading the Mind of God 4. The Harlot and the Hypocrites: Fantasies of Divine Integrity 5. One Thing and Its Opposite: New Frontiers in Defragmentation Theology
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