Rollo May
Rollo May
Rollo Reece Maywas an American existential psychologist and author of the influential book Love and Will. He is often associated with humanistic psychology, existentialist philosophy and, alongside Viktor Frankl, was a major proponent of existential psychotherapy. The philosopher and theologian Paul Tillich was a close friend who had a significant influence on his work...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionNovelist
Date of Birth21 April 1909
CountryUnited States of America
discovery interesting existentialism
It is interesting to note how many of the great scientific discoveries begin as myths.
opposites people break-out
Many people feel they are powerless to do anything effective with their lives. It takes courage to break out of the settled mold, but most find conformity more comfortable. This is why the opposite of courage in our society is not cowardice, it's conformity.
confused artist listening
The receptivity of the artist must never be confused with passivity. Receptivity is the artist's holding him or herself alive and open to hear what being may speak.
confused love-is independence
Love is generally confused with dependence; but in point of fact, you can love only in proportion to your capacity for independence.
struggle creativity writing
Creativity is the result of a struggle between vitality and form. As anyone who has tried to write a sonnet or scan poetry, is aware, the form ideally do not take away from the creativity but may add to it.
struggle creative limits
The creative act arises out of the struggle of human beings with and against that which limits them.
attitude acceptance men
That because of this interplay of conscious and unconscious factors in guilt and the impossibility of legalistic blame, we are forced into an attitude of acceptance of the universal human situation and a recognition of the participation of every one of us in man's inhumanity to man.
meaningful artist feelings
All our feelings, like the artist's paints and brush, are ways of communicating and sharing something meaningful from us to the world.
errors evil looks
The ultimate error is the refusal to look evil in the face.
joy use effects
Joy is the effect which comes when we use our powers.
consciousness awareness possibility
Consciousness is the awareness that emerges out of the dialectical tension between possibilities and limitations.
order self vision
Receptivity requires a nimbleness, a fine-honed sensitivity in order to let one's self be the vehicle of whatever vision may emerge.
unique men animal
Man is the "ethical animal" ethical in potentiality even if, unfortunately, not in actuality. His capacity for ethical judgment like freedom, reason and the other unique characteristics of the human being is based upon his consciousness of himself.
errors personality neurosis
In any discussion of religion and personality integration the question is not whether religion itself makes for health or neurosis, but what kind of religion and how is it used? Freud was in error when he held that religion is per se a compulsion neurosis. Some religion is and some is not.