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“What should the pastor be concerned about with regard to the psycho-spiritual development and maturation of the members in his congregation?”, “What are the conditions for a healthy church fellowship in modern society?” and “What kind of relationship should pastor and church members have?” There is a special relationship between the pastors and church members, which aims at the common goal of an existential-realistic ‘soul healing’. Although both realize the importance of mutual cooperation for the achievement of this goal, equality is not premised within this concept of ‘cooperation’. In other words, pastors and church members have different roles and functions within the church community. Of course, differences in roles and functions do not mean superiority or inferiority of the object. Nevertheless, pastors and church members acknowledge the inevitability and necessity of hierarchies within their relationships. In particular, church members expect unilateral care from the pastor and hope that the pastor will be ‘the subject of salvation of souls’. So, church members deny the pastor's real appearance and project a fantasy image of a stronger and more powerful being to the pastor-object, and furthermore, give a fictional-delusional value. Of course, each pastor has his own unique identity. However, church members believe that the pastor's identity has a great influence on their ‘soul care’. Due to the psychology of these church members, problems and conflicts are formed in the community, and a typical example is ‘pastor-idolization’. In this study, I try to understand the causes of pastor-idolization from a psychoanalytic dimension, and to seek solutions to the problems that arise. I will also classify the cause of occurrence into the dimension of the pastor and of the church members, and understand it in depth and in detail in connection with the desire of each object.