Creativity Is The Result Of A Struggle

The Function Of The Rebel Is To Shake The Fixated Mores Of The Rigid Order Of Civilization; And This Shaking, Though Painful, Is Necessary If The Society Is To Be Saved From Boredom And Apathy. Obviously I Do Not Refer To Everyone Who Calls Himself A Rebel, But Only To The Authentic Rebel. Civilization Gets Its First Flower From The Rebel.

Care Is A State In Which Something Does Matter; Care Is The Opposite Of Apathy. Care Is The Necessary Source Of Eros, The Source Of Human Tenderness.

Power Is Required For Communication. To Stand Before An Indifferent Or Hostile Group And Have One's Say, Or To Speak Honestly To A Friend Truths That Go Deep And Hurt These Require Self-affirmation, Self-assertion, And Even At Times Aggression. ... My Experience In Psychotherapy Convinces Me That The Act Which Requires The Most Courage Is The Simple Communication, Unpropelled By Rage Or Anger, Of One's Deepest Thoughts To Another.

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 .

Terrorism And The Whole Drug Scene Are Vivid Examples Of The Fact That What Persons Abhor Most Of All In Life Is The Possibility That They Will Not Matter.