ABSTRACT
This chapter presents an immodestly entitled “new anatomy of spirituality”. It focuses on responsibility, and how that links to psychological and spiritual concerns. Spirituality as an underneath as well as an over-the-top thing. And because approaches to spirituality so easily go over the top, it is often better to stay underneath. Long before postmodernism was invented, the spirit was deconstructing daily reality in culture. There are four aspects to spirituality and the spiritual dimensions of experience are: social spirituality, craft spirituality, democratic spirituality, and profane spirituality. In analysis and psychotherapy there are aspects of this social spirituality that we need to consider. Martyrdom nudges us up against some of the shadow aspects of spirituality, encouraging us to remember, in any rush to embrace the spiritual and bring it into our work and lives, that martyrdom and acts like suicide bombing are the most extreme, over-literalized form of social spirituality imaginable.
