Man′s Search for Himself

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It is as if the “yatata” were a primitive tribal ceremony, a witch dance calculated to appease some god. In response, he probes the hidden layers of personality to reveal the core of man's integration--a basic and inborn sense of value. between two ages, two modes of life, with the consequence that it loses all power to understand itself and has no standards, no security, no simple acquiescence. Destiny, for example, could be "thrownness" combined with "fallenness" — the part of our lives that is determined for us, for the purpose of creating our lives.

Or if they are written, the tragic aspect is the very fact that human life is so empty, as in Eugene O’Neill’s drama, The Iceman Cometh. As one ordinary person said, “I’m just a collection of mirrors, reflecting what everyone else expects of me. To engage in such thinking is a deception that people use to avoid a constructive attitude toward life, in seeing things as they are. Or they can gain a false sense of power through rebellion, in reacting, resisting, combating an enemy, until they wither away in hatred and fear.

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 fact that was written in 1952, is a sign that Rolo May was a visionary in the field of self enquiring, ant the fact that the book is still valid today, you realise that beside progress, we didn't evolved much. But many modern people have gone so far in their dependence on others for their feeling of reality that they are afraid that without it they would lose the sense of their own existence. May was influenced by American humanism, and interested in reconciling existential psychology with other philosophies, especially Freud's. May, following Nietzsche's striking insight about cultures, values, and the origin of the negation, shows the nature of rebellion.

pek çok psikosomatik hastalığın altında yatan bu duyguların derinliklerine inen bir benlik yolculuğu kitabı. They can empathize with people from hundreds of years ago, on different continents, with other types of animals and plants, and imagine themselves as them.

May suggests that the only way to remedy the cynical ideas that characterize our times is to rediscover the importance of caring for another, which May describes as the opposite of apathy. Decision – The person is in a transition stage in their life such that they need to be more independent from their parents and settle into the "ordinary stage". One person with indigenous inner strength exercises a great calming effect on panic among people around him. In this book, I noticed parallelisms between Rollo May's insights with those of Erich Fromm, especially on the aspect of freedom and irrational authority.

Freedom, according to May, is moving beyond the outer-directed personality, beyond taking his values from parents and society; it is moving beyond rebellion and values that exists as negation.Reading the limitations of the rebellions of the 1920s and 1950s, May has predicted the shortcomings of the rebellions to come in the 1960s through 1990s. Human beings are capable not only of being nature, and being in nature, but in thinking of nature and their place within it.