Traps and Trauma
The difference between children who have experienced trauma vs children who have not is the difference between a well-fed dog and a dog caught in a trap. Being bitten by a dog stuck in a trap will be interpreted…
Category Emotions
Why The USA Abhors Existentialism
If you do not express your own original ideas, if you do not listen to your own being, you will have betrayed yourself. — Rollo May The World Congress for Existential Therapy is hosting a conference in London…
Anxiety or Fear?
“I define anxiety as the apprehension cued off by a threat to some value which the individual holds essential to his existence as a self.” ~ Rollo May (Psychology & The Human Dilemma, 1996, p. 72) Who would have…
Subjectivity & Truth, & the Moon.
“Subjectivity is truth.” ~Soren Kierkegaard Probably one of the least understood quotes of Kierkegaard. The most common interpretation is that all truth is relative. However, this goes directly against what Kierkegaard was trying to say. What it means is…
Mediocre Expectations
Kierkegaard, in Works of Love (2009, p. 246) writes that “The eternal does not even understand, it divorces itself as vanity the cleverness which speaks only about the extent to which one’s expectation has been fulfilled but does not…