To skip the step of confronting Death (jumping into some happily-everafter immortality system) is missing out our only change to experience transcendence.
The neuroses our corner psychotherapist treats ares mere substitutes for our real issue: being responsible for living a meaningful life on the edge of the abyss of death.
The garden-variety neuroses are really masks for our fear of death.
Strategies against the "too much possibility in a time limited self":
- Close down!
- Stay inside myself, but make it a virtue!
- Lose myself in the trivialties of life (caught up in "everydayness")
- Defiant self-creation
- Angst itself is the way out!
(T. Cathcart & Daniel Klein: Heidegger and a Hippo walk through those pearly gates)
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