%0 Journal Article
%T The Church as ¡°Good Enough¡± Parent: The Psychodynamics of the Polish Solidarity Movement
%A Janina Sochaczewski
%J Studies in Religion/Sciences Religieuses
%@ 2042-0587
%D 2018
%R 10.1177/0008429817729989
%X This article explores the role of the Roman Catholic Church in the Polish Solidarity movement (Solidarno£¿£¿) in the early 1980s. While Solidarity has primarily been examined as a politically and economically motivated movement, a study of its religious dimensions lends insight into the psychosocial factors underlying the quest for a return to Poland¡¯s ¡°true identity.¡± This study employs the theoretical concepts of Donald Winnicott in order to demonstrate how figures and symbols of religious authority may play the role of the ¡°good enough¡± parent at the collective level, and how religious institutions may provide a ¡°holding environment¡± that allows for the de-atomization of society, permitting community members to co-create and explore non-violent alternatives of resistance
%K Poland
%K solidarity
%K Winnicott
%K Roman Catholic Church
%K Pope John Paul II
%K psychoanalysis
%K totalitarianism
%K national identity
%K Pologne
%K solidarit¨¦
%K Winnicott
%K ¨¦glise catholique romaine
%K Jean-Paul II
%K psychanalyse
%K totalitarisme
%K identit¨¦ nationale
%U https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/0008429817729989