Man′s Search for Himself

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So long as one can laugh, furthermore, he is not completely under the domination of anxiety or fear—hence the accepted belief in folklore that to be able to laugh in times of danger is a sign of courage. Edebiyat, şiir ve felsefeden anlayan bir terapistin danışanlarından edindiği bilgiyi kendi bilgisiyle harmanladığı bir metni okumak ne kadar da zevkli. Creative – the authentic adult, the existential stage, self-actualizing and transcending simple egocentrism. Across the world, and throughout time, there have been people who have risen to the challenge of leading others.

Rebellion – the rebellious person wants freedom, but does not yet have a good understanding of the responsibility that goes with it. But they neglect responsibility by chaining themselves to addiction, security, comfort, and gratification, avoiding what is uncertain and mysterious, fearful and painful. He spent the final years of his life in Tiburon on San Francisco Bay, where he died in October 1994. Meanwhile, unlike the species, each individual is born completely helpless and dependent on the parents. In ancient Athens, when a politician was trying to get the votes of the working class by appearing very humble in a tattered coat with big holes in it, Socrates unmasked his hypocrisy by exclaiming, 'Your vanity shows forth from every whole in your coat'.Ordinary – the normal adult ego learned responsibility, but finds it too demanding, and so seeks refuge in conformity and traditional values. But the difference is, May's style is rather free-flowing and spontaneous as contrasted with Fromm's somewhat repetitive with rigorously referenced writing.

It is as though the person were saying to himself, “I must be important that I am so worth condemning,” or “Look how noble I am: I have such high ideals and I am so ashamed of myself that I fall short. May, taking a positive step in Freudian theory, no longer theorizes only about the stages of development in literal childhood; he now also speaks about the maturity man the individual and man the species must achieve.

I found Rollo May’s theories and analysis fairly easy to follow considering my only exposure to psychology was a general undergrad course 10+ years ago.