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Logotherapy and faith in the teaching of Viktor E. Frankl
Mijo Nikić
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At the beginning, the difference between psychotherapy and religion is defined. The primary goal of psychotherapy is healing the human soul. The primary goal of religion is its salvation. Faith can be psychotherapeutically effective as it offers inner security and peace to man, leaning on what is transcendental and absolute. The author explains Frankl's thought about the human existence always surpassing itself and always seeking meaning. As a rational, free and responsible being, man always believes in meaning and is capable of discovering it. Man is not governed exclusively by his instinct for pleasure, as Freud believed, nor by his will for power, as Adler thought. He is led by his search of sense. Furthermore, the author analyses the notion of subconscious religiousness which, according to Frankl, though latent, is still immanent to man. Frankl believes that subconscious spirituality is not part of instinctive reality. As a spiritual being, man has consciousness whose goal is to discover the "unique necessary". Frankl is convinced that man's responsibility cannot be reduced to his instinctiveness. Instincts can never and in no way suppress, censor and sublimate themselves.
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85061
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Datum izdavanja:
30.12.2003.
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