Using a language corpus, I found that existential most often occurs in one of these phrases: existential threat existential questions existential crisis The first phrase, existential threat, is used in texts or discussions about politics, usually politics in the Middle East. In this context, ...
But anexistential crisisis less about the end of the world and more about an individual questioning their life’s purpose or values. It’s the kind of crisis that may occur at three in the morning when you’re pondering the meaning of life while lying in bed and staring at the ceiling....
1. A Crisis Is Not What We Have Been Led to Believe; Every Crisis Is an Existential Crisis of MeaningIan MitroffCan Alpaslan
I often find myself in the toy aisle, having an existential crisis. FromThe Daily Beast A creeping sense develops that Judy fled not just a stifling culture but a genuine existential threat. FromThe Daily Beast Albert Camus used violence as a means of exploring meaning, or lack thereof, in...
In 2019, the phraseexistential threatbecame increasingly common in consideration of theclimate crisis, often discussed as anexistential threatto human civilization and the environment as we know them.Existential threatwas also prominent in politics that year, with former Vice President and presidential ca...
Building upon this understanding of meaning in life as a judgment process, the second part of this chapter examines three potential resolutions to an existential crisis: affirming meaning through a leap of faith, carefully evaluating and reconstructing one's system of meaning, and meaninglessness. We...
ST was recognised as a crucial factor in human development and meaning-making by the early existential and humanistic psychologists Frankl (1966) and Maslow (1969). Also, ST is a topic that pertains to the higher levels of psychospiritual development and maturity (Koltko- Rivera, 2006). ...
Existential vacuum refers to chronic feelings of meaninglessness, boredom, and despair. The two related aspects of existential crisis are: (1) the existential anxieties of boredom, alienation, despair, meaninglessness, stress, suffering, sickness, and fear of death and (2) the existential frustrations...
“I want to dedicate to anyone who experiences hopelessness and the feeling of existential dread and feeling like, what’s the point and why am I here and why am I doing this for?” Eilish saidas she accepted an awardat the 2024 Palm Springs International Film Awards Gala in January...
62. Crisis in adaption may be brought about in childhood at the onset of schooling and first independent contact with the unmediated social world. The hormonal changes and new social demands of youth may likewise transform the happy and reasonable child into the depressed and hostile adolescent. ...