Psychoanalytical Reflection of Psalm 23 Freudian, Jungian and Kleinian Perspective

Authors: Ignatius C*

DOI: 10.23880/pprij-16000221

Volume 4, Issue 5

Abstract

The famous Psalm 23 in the Bible starts as "The Lord is my shepherd there is nothing I shall want". This psalm has captured the hearts of millions both in Judeo and Christian traditions for centuries and it still has deeply touched even our modern generation. Freud found that the unconscious process as manifested in dreams and symptom formations ruled by a mode of mental organization, were different from that mode used in our conscious mental activity, which he called primary process and secondary process respectively. Jung saw the human psyche as being divided into a conscious and unconscious level with the latter further divided into a personal conscious and a collective conscious. As a psychoanalyst I have attempted to read and understand this psalm in the approach of Freudian dream analysis and the Jungian approach of personal and collective consciousness and in the approach of Kleinian object relations theory.

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