Man′s Search for Himself

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Although he is often associated with humanistic psychology, his philosophy was influenced strongly by existentialist philosophy. One shouldn’t feel much, nor put much meaning into what one says: what you say seems to have more effect if you don’t try to understand. There is a god, or rather a demon, they are trying to appease: it is the specter of loneliness which hovers outside like the fog drifting in from the sea. The originality and uniqueness which is always part of a spontaneous feeling can be understood in this light. They sense something missing inside themselves, an existential emptiness, an anxiety that gnaws deeply at their insides.

To cling to a tradition, with the defensive plea that if we lose something that worked well in the past we will have lost all, neither shows the spirit of freedom nor makes for the future growth of freedom. All the years of his therapeutic work and he has the gift to articulate the issues of modern man so clearly. People often retreat from what’s not known, becoming rigid and dogmatic, protecting themselves with certainty.His works include Love and Will and The Courage to Create, the latter title honoring Tillich's The Courage to Be. May, following Nietzsche's striking insight about cultures, values, and the origin of the negation, shows the nature of rebellion. It speaks very clearly about the dislocation from meaning and purpose people can suffer in modern society (modern as in 20th century) and how we can address this. Kitaptan ve kitapta değinilen yazarlardan ve kitaplardan öğrenebileceğimiz çok şey olduğunun düşünüyorum.

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. I found some of this writing very interesting and insightful, while other parts of the book had me becoming super-frustrated byMay's long-winded prose.It's a fairly short and breezy book just over 100 pages, and it hits several key points really hard and really well. He experienced a difficult childhood, with his parents divorcing and his sister becoming schizophrenic. According to May, emotion has become separated from reason, making it acceptable socially to seek sexual relationships and avoid the natural drive to relate to another person and create new life. What may is ultimately describing is a type of existential awakening, characterized by the experience of equanimity and vitality that emerges when one arrives in the present moment, “chooses self” and abides in freedom and responsibility. The rebel forgets that rebellion always presupposes an outside structure — of rules, laws, expectations — against which one is rebelling; and one’s security, sense of freedom and strength are dependent actually on this external structure.