The possible impact of animals on Job’s body image: A psychoanalytical perspective

The body plays an important role in the book of Job – as do animals. According to psychoanalytical specifically object-relations theory, a subjective body image was partly constructed through the internalisation of external stimuli from significant others who mirrored the subject through their feedb...

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Main Author:	Pieter van der Zwan
Format:	Article
Language:	Afrikaans
Published:	AOSIS 2021-09-01
Series:	HTS Teologiese Studies/Theological Studies
Subjects:	book of job body image animals psychoanalytical divine speeches skin psychic internalisation body religiosity
Online Access:	https://hts.org.za/index.php/hts/article/view/6696

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spelling	doaj-3f446790bc1f44818f8c60f0223e1fea2021-10-05T13:40:47ZafrAOSISHTS Teologiese Studies/Theological Studies 0259-94222072-80502021-09-01774e1e910.4102/hts.v77i4.66965167The possible impact of animals on Job’s body image: A psychoanalytical perspectivePieter van der Zwan0Department of Old Testament and Hebrew Scriptures, Faculty of Theology and Religion, University of Pretoria, PretoriaThe body plays an important role in the book of Job – as do animals. According to psychoanalytical specifically object-relations theory, a subjective body image was partly constructed through the internalisation of external stimuli from significant others who mirrored the subject through their feedback or through their own bodies, which served as an ideal or critique to the subject. Amongst the external stimuli, animals constitute such significant others. Animals could therefore have impacted Job’s subjective body image, particularly as their bodies were described in detail by God as a response to Job’s complaints and searching. Contribution: Two theoretical and interrelated problems were acknowledged although they cannot be satisfactorily solved: the cultural aspect of the body image and the relationship to animals.https://hts.org.za/index.php/hts/article/view/6696book of jobbody imageanimalspsychoanalyticaldivine speechesskinpsychic internalisationbodyreligiosity
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description	The body plays an important role in the book of Job – as do animals. According to psychoanalytical specifically object-relations theory, a subjective body image was partly constructed through the internalisation of external stimuli from significant others who mirrored the subject through their feedback or through their own bodies, which served as an ideal or critique to the subject. Amongst the external stimuli, animals constitute such significant others. Animals could therefore have impacted Job’s subjective body image, particularly as their bodies were described in detail by God as a response to Job’s complaints and searching. Contribution: Two theoretical and interrelated problems were acknowledged although they cannot be satisfactorily solved: the cultural aspect of the body image and the relationship to animals.
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The possible impact of animals on Job’s body image: A psychoanalytical perspective

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