"There is a belief that love heals all and that if one does not have it, one is a failure.) People have sought love as a solution to all their problems, but now has become a problem in itself. May has discussed his theory of love in depth in Love and Will. Love and Will describes and Beneath the Mask, Monte repeats May's four different forms of loving. Agape or Caritas or Care, Sex or lust or libido, Eros and Death, and last is Philia. May states that we have created a sort of Schizoid World, a numbness against all problems and feelings. This numbness causes uncaring and therefore an unmotivated life. This numbness is also the cause of violence because people feel as if they don't have an impact on anyone's life, which causes them to resort to physical impact, because they are unable to make an emotional connection. .
The first form of loving is Agape or Caritas or Care. It is the love for the wellbeing of others and self. Form the beginning of life care is essential, it is what humans need to survive. A person must care in order to accomplish anything, from having a meaningful sexual relationship or friendship to taking care of the self. Agape or Caritas or Care is the prerequisite for love and it is manifested in the remaining three forms of love Sex, Eros and Death, and Philia.
The Second is Sex, Lust or Libido. Sex is where man's existence begins and therefore is very important. "It is the power of procreation, the drive which perpetuates the race, the source at once of the human being's most intense pleasure and his most pervasive anxiety." (May, 1969, P.38.) Sex has become extremely important; it occupies man's life in all aspects. We are past the times that sex was difficult and even forbidden to talk or write about, but with this newfound sexual freedom many new problems have arisen. Many people suffer from things like impotence and performance anxiety. "Our patients often have the problems of frigidity and impotence, but the strange and poignant thing we observe is how desperately they struggle not to let anyone find out they don't feel sexually.
The primary founder of existential, also known as phenomenological, psychology is Rollo May. May, who was an American, is best known for his work on our struggles in living in the modern world. ... May wrote five books on the subject, The most famous book being Love and Will. ...
In 1942, Rollo May was stricken with tuberculosis. ... Rollo May argued that culture was in an "age of anxiety" and, furthermore, that channeling his own high anxiety was a major factor in overcoming his tuberculosis. ... May was one of the most influential American psychologists of the twentieth century. ... Then came safety needs - security, and stability - followed by psychological, or social needs - for belonging, love, and acceptance. ... In fact, you may never get there. ...
Although John Proctor may not have been a man free from all sins, I believe that he was a man who would do anything to save the name of himself, his family and his friends. ... Maybe he stood up for her to prove that he still loved her and in hopes of regaining some of her trust back. ... Thus, she saved her own name, while many other innocent victims were hanged for a love that never was meant to be. ... Herrick, Cheever, and Danforth are all so full of their own importance and strictness of the court that they couldn't for once think that someone may be telling the truth. ... I fee...
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The Chocolate War By Robert Cormier Chapter1: The first chapter begins with football team tryouts. The young man, who is apparently the lead character, is amongst those trying out for the team although he isn't doing very well. The boy is being tackled left and right on every play. The internal monologue of this boy makes it very apparent to the reader that more than anything he wants to make the football team. As the third paragraph approaches we can start to see that discouragement is setting in. ...