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Rollo May, né le 21 avril 1909 à Ada et mort le 22 octobre 1994 à Tiburon est un psychologue existentialiste nord-américain. Wikipedia  

✵ 21. avril 1909 – 22. octobre 1994
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Rollo May: Citations en anglais

“When one read’s Kierkegaard’s profound analyses of anxiety and despair or Nietzsche’s amazingly acute insights into the dynamics of resentment and the guilt and hostility which accompany repressed emotional powers, one might pinch oneself to realize that one is reading works written in the last century and not some new contemporary psychological analysis.”

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Source: The Discovery of Being (1983), p. 53

“Anxiety occurs because of a threat to the values a person identifies with his existence as a self … most anxiety comes from a threat to social, emotional and moral values the person identifies with himself. And here we find that a main source of anxiety, particularly in the younger generation, is that they do not have viable values available in the culture on the basis of which they can relate to their world. The anxiety which is inescapable in an age in which values are so radically in transition is a central cause of apathy … such prolonged anxiety tends to develop into lack of feeling and the experience of depersonalization.”

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Source: Psychology and the Human Dilemma (1967), p. 42

“Life comes from physical survival; but the good life comes from what we care about.”

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Rollo May livre Love and Will

Source: Love and Will (1969), p. 290

“Imagination is the outreaching of mind … the bombardment of the conscious mind with ideas, impulses, images and every sort of psychic phenomena welling up from the preconscious. It is the capacity to "dream dreams and see visions…"”

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Source: The Courage to Create (1975), Ch. 6 : On the Limits of Creativity, p. 120

“Mark Tobey fills his canvases with elliptical, calligraphic lines, beautiful whirls that seem at first glance to be completely abstract and to come from nowhere at all except his own subjective musing. But I shall never forget how struck I was, on visiting Tobey's studio one day, to see strewn around books on astronomy and photographs of the Milky Way. I knew then that Tobey experiences the movement of the stars and solar constellations as the external pole of his encounter.”

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Source: The Courage to Create (1975), Ch. 4 : Creativity and the Encounter, p. 80

“Poets often have a conscious awareness that they are struggling with the daimonic, and that the issue is their working something through from the depths which push the self to a new plane.”

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Rollo May livre Love and Will

Source: Love and Will (1969), p. 127

“Our patients are the ones who express and live out the subconscious and unconscious tendencies in the culture. The neurotic, or person suffering from what we now call character disorder, is characterized by the fact that the usual defenses of the culture do not work for him — a generally painful situation of which he is more or less aware…”

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Rollo May livre Love and Will

Source: Love and Will (1969), Ch. 1 : Introduction : Our Schizoid World, p. 20

“To love means to open ourselves to the negative as well as the positive — to grief, sorrow, and disappointment as well as to joy, fulfillment, and an intensity of consciousness we did not know was possible before.”

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Rollo May livre Love and Will

Source: Love and Will (1969), p. 100

“We could not even see Hitler or the destructively daimonic reality he represented. Human beings just couldn't be that cruel in the our civilized twentieth century — the accounts in the papers must be wrong. Our error was that we let our convictions limit our perceptions. We had no place for the daimonic; we believed that the world must somehow fit our convictions, and the whole daimonic dimension was ruled out of our perception. Not to recognize the daimonic itself turns out to be daimonic, it makes us accomplices on the side of the destructive possession.
The denial of the daimonic is, in effect, a self-castration in love and a self-nullification in will. And the denial leads to the perverted forms of aggression we have seen in our day in which the repressed comes back to haunt us.”

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Rollo May livre Love and Will

Source: Love and Will (1969), p. 131

“True religion, namely a fundamental affirmation of the meaning of life, is something without which no human being can be healthy in personality.. . . What happens to mental health when this meaning which religion gives is absent? In other words, what is the effect of atheism on personality?. . . I have been startled by the fact that practically every genuine atheist with whom I have dealt has exhibited unmistakable neurotic tendencies.”

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The Ultimate Source of Meaning, Awake! magazine, october 22, 1980.
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“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 forms ideally do not take away from the creativity but may add to it.”

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Rollo May livre Love and Will

Source: Love and Will (1969), Ch. 13 : Communion of Consciousness, p. 320

“Stoicism, in our day, is not strength to overcome wishes, but to hide them.…Tendencies have become endemic in our culture for our denial of wishes to be rationalized and accepted with the belief that this denial of the wish will result in its being fulfilled.”

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Rollo May livre Love and Will

Source: Love and Will (1969), Ch. 10 : Intentionality in Therapy, p. 265

“[D]epression… can be usefully seen, from one point of view, as the inability to see or construct a future.”

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Rollo May livre Love and Will

Source: Love and Will (1969), Ch. 9 : Intentionality, p. 243

“Violence is the daimonic gone awry. It is "demon possession" in its starkest form. Our age is one of transition, in which the normal channels for utilizing the daimonic are denied; and such ages tend to be times when the daimonic is expressed in its most destructive form.”

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Rollo May livre Love and Will

Source: Love and Will (1969), Ch. 5, p. 130

“The daimonic is any natural function which has the power to take over the whole person. Sex and eros, anger and rage, and the craving for power are examples. The daimonic can be either creative or destructive and is normally both.”

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Rollo May livre Love and Will

Source: Love and Will (1969), Ch. 5 : Love and the Daimonic, p. 123

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