[Prayer, an intermediary world].

Prayer, considered under its theological aspect as a love relation between the orant and God becomes, under a psychopathological point of view, deviated as it is from its original aim, a space of potential cure for narcissistic wounds. In this sense, prayer is a kind of intermediary world between normality and madness, which according to the religious ideas of the individual and the importance of his mental disorders, tends towards one or the other of these extremes, and makes his defences operative. It happens therefore that Faith, as materialized in prayer, can be a mean to save oneself of mental morbidity.

[From virginity to mysticism].

Through a clinical observation illustrated with a borderline state described by Bergeret and in a variety of nervous breakdown, the problem of narcissism is set through the quest for an ultimate and an idealization. With the arrival of a late and disorganizing traumatism, is realized an exchange between a narcissic ideal (pureness/virginity) and a megalomaniac one (mysticity). It is the punctual established fact of a cure of a narcissic loss (loss of virginity) by a narcissic recival (God).