해석학적 놀이로서의 목회상담

Abstract

This paper starts from the problem of the loss of play in the social discourse that equates the value of life with economics. In this reality, pastoral counseling needs to encourage people to live the image of God in their own unique area. Therefore, “pastoral counseling as hermeneutical play”is suggested as necessary to concentrate on making a space where counseling can be playful rather than simply oriented towards problem solving or symptom removal. We first explore how can play can become a process of interpretation through Gadamer’s hermeneutic play theory. In order to be a practice of pastoral counseling using hermeneutical play, we explore Gadamer’s philosophical understanding and Winnicott’s psychological understanding. In the space of pastoral counseling, circulation of understanding and recreation will restore voluntary participation as a playful person and restore the ability to play. Therefore, the pastoral counseling as hermeneutical play did not teach the identified patient how to play in the space of interpretation, but tried to suggest that participating in the open process of interpretation occurring in conflict and crisis is playing. The understanding of these potential spaces by pastoral counselors and opening themselves to that space will lead to the expansion of self and ontological change, it means healing and growth to both the identified patient and the counselor.