Great Freud gave us not only the concept of the unconscious, the transfer of psychological protection, but the fascinating Pleasure Principle. Healthy personality according to Freud is the person who benefits society, people are able to receive and experience pleasure. And with the pleasures of neurotic trouble. Neurotic is near the door, on which written in large letters, "Fun", but it never goes inside. Whether he was scared, or ashamed, or something else – who knows. Neurotic begins to justify far-fetched semantic structures, from concepts of sin, to identify the characteristics of his personality. But the joy and happiness he wants no less. When Freud asked how it relates to psychoanalysis, which develops advanced at the time the direction – finding of the meaning of life, he invariably smiled and said that where the search begins for the meaning of life, the neurosis begins.
One of the first in the controversy with Orthodox psychoanalysis on the topic of the meaning of life joined Viktor Frankl with his Logotherapy. Frankl lived a long and at times unbearable life. People went through the concentration camps, which were furnaces, and these furnaces need to be fed. People. In such conditions, Frankl suffered their views on life. In such conditions, was tempered by his belief in search of the meaning of life. Logotherapeutic believe that it is the search for meaning in life makes us happy, free from severe psychological disorders and the risk of becoming dependent, for example, alcohol. In addition, logotherapeutic believe that the search for meaning in life reduces the percentage of suicidato in society. And, of course, they believe that every life has meaning. Just need to look good.
About my position.
since College times, I learned that existential therapy posits 4 existential Givens:
- a Person is forced every day to discover a SEXUALITY. It is ineradicable.
- MORTALITY. We will all die. Fear of aging here.
- ALONE. How many would you surrounded by people, loneliness and isolation will make themselves known.
- the POINTLESSNESS of life. In life of each person there own sense of meaninglessness.
Thus, the existential direction is not limited to a convulsive search for meaning and represents something much bigger and attractive than dry sense to the rest.
For me, existentialism is a strategic direction. Psychoanalysis – this is pure tactics. I don't see the opposition of the pleasure and meaning, but see the continuity of ideas. We use the metaphor of a pyramid.
the picture I showed that the meaning of life grows of fun. As I see it. Just so the point becomes vital, not neurotic. If a person seeks the meaning of life regardless of the pleasures we get the process of neurotic personality.
When the meaning for meaning, where there to live?
Always your Michael Samodurov.
P. S. I shall return to excess pleasures as a neurosis. What do you think;)
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