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This article takes up William James’ observation that Saint Augustine is “a classic example” of the discordant personality or divided self, and employs E. R. Dodd’s equally classic (1927–28) article on Augustine’s “spiritual maladjustment” to explore the psychological bases, especially parental, for Augustine’s discordant personality, and to evaluate the effectiveness of Augustine’s efforts to overcome the discordancy through a personal religious conversion.
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Capps, D. Augustine’s Confessions: The Story of a Divided Self and the Process of Its Unification. Pastoral Psychol 55, 551–569 (2007). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11089-007-0074-1
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