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Heschel, A. J.,Man Is Not Alone. New York, Harper Torchbooks, 1966, p. 221.
For an explanation of “will to meaning,” see Frankl, V. E.,The Will to Meaning. New York, World Publishing Co., 1969.
Frankl,op. cit., p. 21, writes: “at the moment totality is claimed psychology becomes psychologism.”
Heschel,The Prophets. New York, Harper & Row, 1962, p. 408.
Ibid., p. 392. See also May, R.,Love and Will. New York, Norton, 1969, p. 19. May sees in clinical examples the same phenomena Heschel discusses. May sees a “prophetic” or “predictive” element in psychosis.
Heschel,Man Is Not Alone,op. cit., p. 39.
See Marcuse, H.,Eros and Civilization. New York, Vintage Books, 1962, p. 117 ff.
Heschel,God in Search of Man. New York, Harper Torchbooks, 1966, p. 117.
Heschel equates ego with the “Evil Drive.” Seeibid., p. 384 and p. 388. He also equates ego with idolatry.Ibid., p. 9, p. 401.
—,Man Is Not Alone,op. cit., p. 210.
Ibid., p. 209.
Cf. Frankl,op. cit., p. 18, p. 38.
Marcuse,op. cit., p. 135.
Heschel,Man Is Not Alone,op. cit., p. 142.
—,God in Search of Man, op. cit., p. 384.
—,Man Is Not Alone, op. cit., p. 226.
Ibid., p. 136. See also Ungersma, A. J.,The Search for Meaning: A New Approach to Pastoral Counseling (Philadelphia, Westminster Press, 1961) on the development of maturity reflecting the Freudian principle, the Adlerian principle, and the “will to meaning” cited by Frankl (op. cit.). Frankl, V. E.,The Will to Meeaning. New York, World Publishing Co., 1969. There is a clear parallelism here. The Freudian principle clearly refers to the ego, id, superego (i.e., the self). The Adlerian concept refers to man's striving with others, and the “will to meaning” refers to a transcendent dimension.
Heschel, A. J.,Man Is Not Alone, op. cit., p. 264.
Ibid., p. 186.
Ibid., p. 262.
Ibid., p. 210.
Ibid., p. 211.
Ibid., p. 212.
Buber, M.,The Knowledge of Man. Edited with introductory essay by Friedman, M. New York, Harper & Row, 1965, see Introduction.
Cf. Ryle, G.,The Concept of Mind. New York, Barnes & Noble, 1949, p. 28 ff. Ryle discusses the “intellectualist legend” in clarifying the concept of mind in relation to cognitive functions.
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Goldman, N.S. The metapsychology of Abraham Joshua Heschel. J Relig Health 14, 106–112 (1975). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01533001
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