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Man's search for himself, Rollo May

eng

Includes bibliographical references and index

index present

non fiction

Man's search for himself

bibliography

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Rollo May

Preface -- pt. 1. Our predicament -- 1. The loneliness and anxiety of modern man -- The hollow people -- Loneliness -- Anxiety and the threat to the self -- What is anxiety? -- 2. The roots of our malady -- The loss of the center of values in our society -- The loss of the sense of self -- The loss of our language for personal communication -- "Little we see in nature that is ours" -- The loss of the sense of tragedy -- pt. 2 Rediscovering selfhood -- 3. The experience of becoming a person -- Consciousness of self--the unique mark of man -- Self-contempt, a substitute for self-worth -- Consciousness of self is not introversion -- The experiencing of one's body and feelings -- 4. The struggle to be -- Cutting the psychological umbilical cord -- The struggle against mother -- The struggle against one's own dependency -- Stages in consciousness of self -- pt. 3 The goals of integration -- 5. Freedom and inner strength -- The man who was put in a cage -- Hatred and resentment as the price of denied freedom -- What freedom is not -- What freedom is -- Freedom and structure -- "Choosing one's self" -- 6. The creative conscience -- Adam and Prometheus -- Religion--source of strength or weakness? -- The creative use of the past -- The person's power to do the valuing -- 7. Courage, the virtue of maturity -- Courage to be one's self -- A preface to love -- Courage to see the truth -- 8. Man, the transcender of time -- Man does not live by the clock alone -- The pregnant moment -- "In the light of eternity" -- No matter what the age -- Index