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In a parallel development Chodorow’s later work focuses on the development of meaning
and draws particularly on the work of Loewald (Chodorow 2003). 268 Chodorow advocates
the vital connection between the inner and the outer, as well as the psychoanalytic realm and
cultural or social contexts. These combine to form meaning and although she does not
explicitly address religion or spirituality, reference is made to Kakar and Akhtar and the
place of religion in culture. The recognition of other/Other, the inner and outer, through
which our narratives of being are discovered and their story told, is of crucial importance for
future developments in psychoanalytic, religious and spiritual engagement.
268 Chodorow also refers to Erikson, Klein, object relations theorists and views herself as ‘a theoretical
synthesizer’ drawing on people that ‘are usually seen to be incompatible, and I do not take a strong stand for or
against one-person or two-person psychologies’ (Chodorow 1999: 3).
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