Man′s Search for Himself

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One person with indigenous inner strength exercises a great calming effect on panic among people around him. It is the willingness to differentiate, to move from the protecting realms of parental dependence to new levels of freedom and integration.

As one ordinary person said, “I’m just a collection of mirrors, reflecting what everyone else expects of me.In response, he probes the hidden layers of personality to reveal the core of man's integration--a basic and inborn sense of value. They become performers rather than humans, caring about their actions, based on the reactions of others to their actions.

Freedom means openness, a readiness to grow; it means being flexible, ready to change for the sake of greater human values. But they neglect responsibility by chaining themselves to addiction, security, comfort, and gratification, avoiding what is uncertain and mysterious, fearful and painful. The prescriptions May provides for finding true freedom, in moving beyond outer-directedness and rebellion are, not surprisingly, not wholly satisfactory.The neurotics of Freud's era, who were unsuccessfully coping with the Victorian morals and bourgeoisie family headed by the paterfamilias, had by 1950s America given way.