Rollo May Frasi e Citazioni
Rollo May: Frasi in inglese
“Civilization gets its first flower from the rebel.”
Origine: Power and Innocence (1972), Ch. 11 : The Humanity of the Rebel
Contesto: The function of the rebel is to shake the fixated mores of the rigid order of civilization; and this shaking, though painful, is necessary if the society is to be saved from boredom and apathy. Obviously I do not refer to everyone who calls himself a rebel, but only to the authentic rebel. Civilization gets its first flower from the rebel.
Origine: The Courage to Create (1975), Ch. 1 : The Courage to Create, p. 32
Contesto: Artists are generally soft-spoken persons who are concerned with their inner visions and images. But that is precisely what makes them feared by any coercive society. For they are the bearers of the human being's age old capacity to be insurgent. They love to immerse themselves in chaos in order to put it into form, just as God created form out of chaos in Genesis. Forever unsatisfied with the mundane, the apathetic, the conventional, they always push on to newer worlds.
Ch 3 : Creativity and the Unconcious, p. 59
The Courage to Create (1975)
Contesto: A dynamic struggle goes on within a person between what he or she consciously thinks on the one hand and, on the other, some insight, some perspective that is struggling to be born. The insight is then born with anxiety, guilt, and the joy and gratification that is inseparable from the actualizing of a new idea or vision.
Ch 3 : Creativity and the Unconcious, p. 76
The Courage to Create (1975)
Contesto: Dogmatists of all kinds — scientific, economic, moral, as well as political — are threatened by the creative freedom of the artist. This is necessarily and inevitably so. We cannot escape our anxiety over the fact that the artists together with creative persons of all sorts, are the possible destroyers of our nicely ordered systems. For the creative impulse is the speaking of the voice and the expressing of the forms of the preconscious and unconscious; and this is, by its very nature, a threat to rationality and external control.
“Power is required for communication.”
Origine: Power and Innocence (1972), Ch. 12 : Toward New Community
Contesto: Power is required for communication. To stand before an indifferent or hostile group and have one's say, or to speak honestly to a friend truths that go deep and hurt — these require self-affirmation, self-assertion, and even at times aggression. … My experience in psychotherapy convinces me that the act which requires the most courage is the simple communication, unpropelled by rage or anger, of one's deepest thoughts to another.
“Civilization begins with a rebellion.”
Origine: Power and Innocence (1972), Ch. 11 : The Humanity of the Rebel
Contesto: Civilization begins with a rebellion. Prometheus, one of the Titans, steals fire from the gods on Mount Olympus and brings it as a gift to man, marking the birth of human culture. For this rebellion Zeus sentences him to be chained to Mount Caucasus where vultures consume his liver during the day and at night it grows back only to be again eaten away the next day. This is a tale of the agony of the creative individual, whose nightly rest only resuscitates him so that he can endure his agonies the next day.
Origine: Love and Will (1969), p. 126
Contesto: We must rediscover the daimonic in a new form which will be adequate to our own predicament and fructifying for our own day. And this will not be a rediscovery alone but a recreation of the reality of the daimonic.
The daimonic needs to be directed and channeled. Here is where human consciousness becomes so important. We initially experience the daimonic as a blind push. It is impersonal in the sense that it makes us nature's tool. … consciousness can integrate the daimonic, make it personal.
Origine: Love and Will (1969), Ch. 1 : Introduction : Our Schizoid World, p. 21
Origine: The Discovery of Being (1983), p. 76
“Depression is the inability to construct a future.”
Origine: Love and Will (1969), p. 243
Origine: The Discovery of Being (1983), p. 69
“A person can meet anxiety to the extent that his values are stronger than the threat.”
Origine: Psychology and the Human Dilemma (1967), p. 51
Origine: Man’s Search for Himself (1953), p. 235
Origine: Man’s Search for Himself (1953), p. 13
Origine: The Discovery of Being (1983), p. 54-55
Origine: Psychology and the Human Dilemma (1967), p. 37
Origine: The Discovery of Being (1983), p. 60-61
Origine: Man’s Search for Himself (1953), p. 49
Origine: Power and Innocence (1972), Ch. 11 : The Humanity of the Rebel
Origine: Power and Innocence (1972), Ch. 8 : Ecstasy and Violence, p. 176
Origine: Psychology and the Human Dilemma (1967), p. 31
Origine: Man’s Search for Himself (1953), p. 56
Origine: The Courage to Create (1975), Ch. 1 : The Courage to Create, p. 21
“One does not become fully human painlessly.”
Foreword to Existential-Phenomenological Alternatives for Psychology (1978) by Ronald S. Valle and Mark King
Origine: Love and Will (1969), Ch. 1 : Introduction : Our Schizoid World, p. 17
Origine: Power and Innocence (1972), Ch. 11 : The Humanity of the Rebel
Ch 2 : The Nature of Creativity, p. 49
The Courage to Create (1975)
Origine: The Courage to Create (1975), Ch. 5 : The Delphic Oracle as Therapist, p. 100
