Man′s Search for Himself

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You can change your choices at any time by visiting Cookie preferences, as described in the Cookie notice. After reading this multiple times, it has helped me be more in the present (in a non-corny way) and appreciate life more honestly (including conflicts and challenges). Though this cannot be done through the deus ex machina of a ‘cosmic papa,’ it can be achieved through the individual’s confronting directly the various crises of his development, moving from dependence to greater freedom and higher integration by developing and utilizing his capacities, and relating to his fellows through creative work and love. He also integrated key psychodynamic concepts which are essential in the practice of therapy, case analyses, and so on.

pages in and you realize that the book is not what you assumed it to be, but the Contents and length (150 pages) lures you to finish it nevertheless. Korkaklık cesaretin, bireysel toplumsalın, tarih güncelin zıddı değil, bu kitap bu bilgiyi akıcı bir dille aktarıyor. He weaves in a lot more historical context and knowledge than I have, and talks about things like mythology in ways that I wish I were better at. It is the willingness to differentiate, to move from the protecting realms of parental dependence to new levels of freedom and integration.In this book, I noticed parallelisms between Rollo May's insights with those of Erich Fromm, especially on the aspect of freedom and irrational authority. What we have, says May, and I would tend to agree, is the loneliness (in the sense of the Lonely Crowd) and anxiety of modern man. The only portion on this book that might convince me of impartiality is his statement of considering social factors that would vary as per condition of each patient. The human being cannot live in a condition of emptiness for very long: if he is not growing toward something, he does not merely stagnate; the pent-up potentialities turn into morbidity and despair, and eventually into destructive activities.

To engage in such thinking is a deception that people use to avoid a constructive attitude toward life, in seeing things as they are. Or they can gain a false sense of power through rebellion, in reacting, resisting, combating an enemy, until they wither away in hatred and fear. To identify freedom with a given system is to deny freedom — it crystallizes freedom and turns it into dogma. Since our earliest beginnings, every documented society has gathered to perform elaborate rites and ceremonies - from mass worship to body modification - yet ritual poses a deep paradox: why do we give the utmost importance to otherwise pointless activities?

It sat on my book shelf for two years and I picked it up just to flip through it and it couldn't have been a better time. They can conform to the conditioning of their youth and follow a linear path made up for them to adhere to until eventually dying.