I Birth as an act represents the beginning of the tragedy of the individual (the person), the dawn of his suffering in a closed metaphorical, yet realistically palpable circle of the absurdity of everyday life, on the axis of the meaninglessness of existence. It is – as a beginning – consequently caused either by mere […]
One morning in may, the existential psychotherapist Irvin Yalom was recuperating in a sunny room on the first floor of a Palo Alto convalescent hospital. He was dressed in white pants and a green sweater, not a hospital gown, and was quick to point out that he is not normally confined to a medical facility. “I […]
