Review article
The meaning of depression according to Romano Guardini
Anđelko Domazet
; Catholic Faculty of Theology, University of Split
Abstract
In this article we analyze a short writing “On the Meaning
of Depression” written by the great theologian and philosopher
Romano Guardini. The phenomenon of depression reveals
man’s fundamental life situation in relation to the Eternal and
how it encounters man in his concrete existence. Our author
first describes the phenomenon of the state of depression; then he relates his reflections on the meaning of depression
to anthropology and theology. Depression as a phenomenon is
closely connected with self-experience: a depressed man feels
weight that oppresses him, perceives emptiness, boredom, lack
of self-confidence and vulnerability caused by his own special
sensitivity. Because of all this, man, in his depression, radically
faces the question about the point of life and his own existence.
Keywords
Romano Guardini; meaning of depression; creatureliness; faith; anthropology and theology
Hrčak ID:
70118
URI
Publication date:
5.7.2011.
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