Pregledni rad
A Feastday between Neurosis and Meaning. On »Sunday Neurosis« in the Thought of Victor E. Frankl
Ivica Žižić
; Papinski liturgijski institut Papinskog sveučilišta sv. Anselmo u Rimu, Rim, Italija
Lidija Piskač
; Filozofski fakultet Sveučilišta u Zagrebu, Zagreb, Hrvatska
Sažetak
This paper deals with reflections on the category of »Sunday neurosis« a term coined by the founder of logotherapy Victor E. Frankl in the context of broader critical-culturological and theological speech on the religious holiday. The authors emphasize the actuality of the category. »Neurosis« is thereby a symptom of a twofold holiday crisis: the religious, which is reflected in a »loss of meaning« behind ritual celebration, and the humanistic crisis, which is reflected in anxiety-filled »holiday depression«. The authors point out that »Sunday neurosis«, though a modern phenomenon, is a current reality in the postmodern »consumeristic utopia« The first section of the paper questions the complex relationship between the dynamics of meaning and time, and stresses the connection between Frankl's analysis and today's »search for meaning«. The issue of the religious and »Sunday neurosis« thus are a reflection of the heritage of modernity: deritualization, the strategy of holiday escapism, the search for »powerful experiences« in the symbolic worlds of postmodernity. The second section of this paper deals with the phenomenological determination of holiday festivities in contemporary culture. Based on Frankl's analysis, but also beyond, the authors strive to depict the connection between the disintegration of a holiday's religious meaning and the »Sunday neurosis« in postmodernist circumstances. The authors linger only on those features which are prominent in the panorama of contemporary festivities and are inscribed in the cultural edification processes of the holiday. Finally, the authors point out the need for theological criticism of the inflation of holidays in contemporary culture, since holidays, especially Sunday, have been reduced to material, economic and ideological means of producing illusions of security, integrity and greatness. A critique of conditioned collective postmodern needs, myths and rituals encourages theological reflection on rediscovering holidays in light of Christian humanism as truly being occasions for an openness to faith
Ključne riječi
V. E. Frankl; Sunday neurosis; ritual; postmodern period; religious holiday; theology
Hrčak ID:
71408
URI
Datum izdavanja:
13.9.2011.
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