x-experience
What we call the religious attitude is an x that is expressible only in poetic and visual symbols. This x experience has been articulated in various concepts which have varied [...]
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well-being
What is generally understood by mental health is negative, rather than positive: the absence of sickness, rather than the presence of well-being. (…) I would describe well-being as the ability [...]
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will
The will is not an abstract power of man which he possesses apart from his character. On the contrary, the will is nothing but the expression of his character. The [...]
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resistance
When one tries, in analysis, to bring the repressed impulses back to consciousness, this force, which prevents the repressed from returning, makes itself clearly felt. Freud termed it „resistance”. This [...]
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truth
Man qua man has an inherent tendency to enlarge his knowledge of reality and that means to approximate the truth. We are not dealing here with a metaphysical concept of [...]
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