Louis Hoffman
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Ernest Becker, Rollo May, Albert Camus, Friedrich Nietzsche, Frantz Fa
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December 2009
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How to Be Authentic: Simone de Beauvoir and the Quest for Fulfillment
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Eros & Psyche (Volumes 1 & 2): Existential Perspectives on Sexuality
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“Suffering with another is typically not pure suffering; there is some good or positive in this experience.”
― Existential Psychology East-west
― Existential Psychology East-west
“Freedom can only be understood in the context of destiny, or those things which limit our freedom.”
― Existential Psychology East-west
― Existential Psychology East-west
“As therapists our job is to see our clients, even at those times when we would rather look away. It is though our mutual fierce vision that clients discover choice and meaning.”
― Existential Psychology East-west
― Existential Psychology East-west
“Man cannot endure his own littleness unless he can translate it into meaningfulness on the largest possible level.”
― The Denial of Death
― The Denial of Death
“What is the ideal for mental health, then? A lived, compelling illusion that does not lie about life, death, and reality; one honest enough to follow its own commandments: I mean, not to kill, not to take the lives of others to justify itself.”
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“A myth is a way of making sense in a senseless world. Myths are narrative patterns that give significance to our existence.”
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“There can be no stronger proof of the impoverishment of our contemporary culture than the popular - though profoundly mistaken - definition of myth as falsehood.”
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