ABSTRACT
Dionysius’ Ecclesiastical Hierarchy describes the worshipping community, gathered to grow into conformity with the providential dynamic of the One. There are striking parallels between the metaphors and images used in the Ecclesiastical Hierarchy and descriptions of the process of psychoanalytic psychotherapy. Jung describes the Mass as ‘the rite of the individuation process’.1 Hotz argues that ‘Denys recognized that the religious subjectivity of Christians is formed in communities through devotional and public worship practices precisely because these practices remap the patterns that make person who they are’.2
