The article examines the new psychological language that developed in late antiquity to formulate a personal relationship with the one God. This language used the Greek term for the soul, the psuchē (Latin anima), and defined it as the relational faculty of the human mind. The perception of the human mind as relational became instrumental to formulate the experience of conversion, that is, a mental and emotional process of self-transformation, psychological in the modern sense of the term. The article analyzes the psychological perspective of the ancient authors who developed the idea of the relational faculty to connect to God by using modern theories that perceive the human mind as relationally configured. In order to analyze ancient and modern writers together, the article develops a new methodological approach to move in between ancient and modern writings without falling into the pit of anachronism. This approach enables the author to define a common theoretical field for historical analysis and psychoanalysis, and to use the historical evidence in order to evaluate and challenge the modern psychoanalytic prism. To bridge between the two disciplines, the present article uses anthropology. Thanks to its psychological aspect, anthropology of religion validates the two-way relationship between history and psychoanalysis. Anthropological field research on the beliefs in tree spirits conducted by the author in an animistic environment has revealed a relational psychological language in the core of the animistic belief, and provides the missing link to connect history and psychoanalysis. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2021 APA, all rights reserved).

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关系思维：介于历史、心理学和人类学之间。

这篇文章考察了在古代晚期发展起来的新的心理语言，用于与独一的上帝建立个人关系。这种语言使用希腊术语 psuchē（拉丁语 anima）来表示灵魂，并将其定义为人类心灵的关系能力。将人类心智视为关系性的观念成为形成转变体验的工具，即自我转变的心理和情感过程，现代意义上的心理。这篇文章分析了古代作者的心理学观点，他们通过使用将人类思维视为关系配置的现代理论，发展出与上帝联系的关系能力的想法。为了一起分析古今作家，这篇文章开发了一种新的方法论方法，可以在古代和现代著作之间穿梭，而不会落入时代错误的陷阱。这种方法使作者能够为历史分析和精神分析定义一个共同的理论领域，并使用历史证据来评估和挑战现代精神分析棱镜。为了在这两个学科之间架起桥梁，本文使用人类学。由于其心理方面，宗教人类学验证了历史和精神分析之间的双向关系。作者在万物有灵论环境下对树精信仰进行的人类学实地研究揭示了万物有灵信仰核心的关系心理语言，并提供了连接历史和精神分析的缺失环节。