Man′s Search for Himself

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A young man came for psychotherapy because, though he was intellectually very competent and seemed superficially to be very successful, his spontaneity was almost completely blocked. She must be highly gregarious, not intellectual or conspicuous, and she must have very “sensitive antennae” (again that radar set! Finding the center of strength within ourselves is in the long run the best contribution we can make to our fellow men. Yazıldığı döneme (ilk yayınlanma tarihi olarak 1953 gösteriliyor yani ikinci dünya savaşından sonraki soğuk savaş dönemi) günümüzde olduğundan daha fazla uyması şaşırtıcı değil ve evet; hala günümüze ışık tutuyor fakat ara ara yapılan yazıldığı döneme ilişkin çıkarımlar bana olmasa da olurmuş dedirtti. Moving out from a protected, familiar place into new independence, from support to temporary isolation, while at the same time one feels one’s own anxiety and powerlessness.

TheNotebook by Roland Allen is a gorgeously illustrated cultural history of the humble notebook, from the bustling markets of medieval Florence to the quiet studies of our greatest thinkers. The painful insecurity on all sides gives us new incentive to ask, Is there perhaps some important source of guidance and strength we have overlooked? He experienced a difficult childhood, with his parents divorcing and his sister becoming schizophrenic.

May posits that this lack of “authentic” selfhood is due to a habitual avoidance of mortality and compulsive distraction away from inner life. To identify freedom with a given system is to deny freedom — it crystallizes freedom and turns it into dogma. Like his contemporaries, May was writing at a time where the field was trying to find a way beyond Freud. The challenge for the individual is to grow up and gain independence from the parents that he was so dependent on in infancy, childhood, and adolescence.

It is essentially an ‘opening’ attitude — an awareness that there is more to life than one has as yet fathomed, an experience of new vistas in life to be explored as well as new profundities to be plumbed. They will rather, in the form of family, religion, government, and so on, redirect a person’s fear toward others, eventually turning that fear into hatred. Bencilliğin kendini sevmeyle eşitlendiği, narsizmi gıdıklayan bir yönetimsellik düzeninde hayatın paradoksal bilgisini edinmek çok zor ve bu yüzden çok kıymetli. Dediğim gibi; bir yazarın bulunduğu zaman ve mekandan bahsetmesi abes değil tabiki de fakat konu varoluşçu psikoloji olduğundan insan biraz daha genel bir anlatım bekleyebiliyor. In this vein, one of the frustrating limitations of the Freudian and neo-Freudian tradition was the use of individual case histories as evidence to support their theories.Many people suffer from “the fear of finding oneself alone,” remarks André Gide, “and so they don’t find themselves at all.