Normal anxiety is an integral part of growth and creativity. Evaluation and Critique. Making a choice Decision about the future Implies action and action implies intention. Open navigation menu. Close suggestions Search Search. User Settings. Skip carousel. Carousel Previous. Carousel Next. What is Scribd? Rollo May. Uploaded by satyag Did you find this document useful? Is this content inappropriate? Report this Document. Description: Existential Psychology, Being, Non-being. Flag for inappropriate content.
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It is suggested that our brain rationality section is not fully developed until the age of 25 in which in special cases a young adult can go through the Rebellion stage.
The Ordinary stage is where one discovers and understands full responsibility. But in this particular stage, one will develop a rebellious feeling towards responsibility because it is too demanding will seek anything to cope and comfort within this stage. Then there is the creative stage where I believe we accept ourselves in our own uniqueness and face our anxieties with courage.
An adult may be rebellious and creative at certain times. Think of the prisoner who although rebellious becomes engaged in Art as a way of enduring a prison sentence. Leonardo Da Vinci is probably the archetype of the truly creative individual. For the authentic adult, the existential stage is a space beyond ego and self-actualizing. This is the person who, accepting destiny, faces anxiety with courage. What I take away with from this book is, oddly, neither about courage nor creativity but the importance of being.
May emphasizes creativity as an expression of being and courage that, when constructed ontologically, is the capacity to act in spite of despair. With being, the scope of inquiry concerns itself with the holistically functional human being who is never exclusively subject or object but dynamically both.
In undercutting the subjective and objective dichotomy, points to understanding of the whole as infinitely greater than the sum of its parts. Genuine encounter, in honor of our humanity, is necessary. The human dilemma is not overlooked but empathically embraced. Courage and creativity are delicately poised and counterpoised. Both are expressions of self-realization and daring declarations show bureaucracy and automatons and arrows to our greater potentials.
Courage and creativity are not simple to obtain and does require the necessity to experience struggle through obtaining such characteristics. With Courage we require fear to be mixed within the psychological cauldron to create it and become adroit at such a task.
Within my own life experience, I struggle with creativity because I follow the meta and stick with what people expect me to be. I never developed the courage to find what I am truly adroit at other than computer science which I believe is what people expected me to be good at.
I need the courage to set aside what people expect of me and find a hidden power that unlocks my true potential of creativity. His definition of anxiety is the apprehension cued off by a threat to some value which the individual holds essential to his existence as a self , p. While not pure existentialism, it does obviously include fear of death or nothingness Later, he quotes Kierkegaard: Anxiety is the dizziness of freedom. And this cannot be put outside oneself even though people try very hard to do so.
This was a cassette tape recording of Rollo may speaking to Claire Gains where May tries to explain the benefits of anxiety. He claims that anxiety is the best source of creativity. He even claimed that our brightest and gifted individuals have the most anxiety. Anxiety allows us to access a part of ourselves that releases creativity when we are under pressure.
The young adult replied no and the man told him how much of a fool he was to not be scared. The significance is that when you are scared or under anxiety, your brain will be at its most rational moment and your ability to create something will increase tenfold. Mays last book was The Cry for Myth.
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