Rollo May

The Meaning of Anxiety

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  • lizethohas quoted4 years ago
    Why did anxiety not emerge as a specific problem until the middle of the nineteenth century? And why was anxiety not dealt with as a problem in the various schools of psychology (excepting psychoanalysis) until the latter 1930’s, despite the fact that during the previous half-century the study of fears had been prominent in psychology?
  • lizethohas quoted4 years ago
    For Kierkegaard, in contrast, confidence is not the removal of doubt (and anxiety) but rather the attitude that we can move ahead despite doubt and anxiety.
  • lizethohas quoted4 years ago
    Spinoza’s guidance on how to overcome fear is consistent with the general rational emphasis of the time, in which emotion is not repressed but rather made amenable to reason.
  • lizethohas quoted4 years ago
    He defines fear in juxtaposition to hope: they are both characteristic of the person in doubt.
  • lizethohas quoted4 years ago
    he uses “passion” to mean an emotional complex, not as Kierkegaard uses it to mean commitment
  • lizethohas quoted4 years ago
    Spinoza’s writings are replete with acute psychological insights which are remarkably close to contemporary scientific psychological theories, such as his statement that mental and physical phenomena are two aspects of the same process.
  • lizethohas quoted4 years ago
    I shall demonstrate in the writings of Spinoza that the confidence that fear could be overcome by reason did serve to a considerable extent to obviate the problem of anxiety.
  • lizethohas quoted4 years ago
    The suppression of the nonmechanical and “irrational” aspects of experience went hand in hand, both as cause and effect, with the needs of the new industrialism following the Renaissance. What could be calculated and measured had practical utility in the industrial, workaday world, and what was “irrational” did not.
  • lizethohas quoted4 years ago
    Descartes gave impetus to this development by his sharp distinction between mind and the processes of thought (intension) on one hand and physical nature (extension) on the other.
  • lizethohas quoted4 years ago
    could arrive at autonomy in his intellectual, social, religious, and emotional life.
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