A Myth Is A Way Of Making

Everyone Has A Need For Significance; And If We Can't Make That Possible, Or Even Probable, In Our Society, Then It Will Be Obtained In Destructive Ways.

Existential Psychotherapy Is The Movement Which, Although Standing On One Side On The Scientific Analysis Owed Chiefly To The Genius Of Freud , Also Brings Back Into The Picture The Understanding Of Man On The Deeper And Broader Level Man As The Being Who Is Human. It Is Based On The Assumption That It Is Possible To Have A Science Of Man Which Does Not Fragmentize Man And Destroy His Humanity At The Same Moment As It Studies Him. It Unites Science And Ontology .

Creativity Is Neither The Product Of Neurosis Nor Simple Talent, But An Intense Courageous Encounter With The Gods.

Lacking Positive Myths To Guide Him, Many A Sensitive Contemporary Man Finds Only The Model Of The Machine Beckoning Him From Every Side To Make Himself Over Into Its Image.

What Is Courage? This Courage Will Not Be The Opposite Of Despair. We Shall Often Be Faced With Despair, As Indeed Every Sensitive Person Has Been During The Last Several Decades In This Country. Hence Kierkegaard And Nietzsche And Camus And Sartre Have Proclaimed That Courage Is Not The Absence Of Despair; It Is, Rather, The Capacity To Move Ahead In Spite Of Despair.