Unconscious Religiousness

“Existential Analysis has uncovered within the spiritual unconscious, unconscious religiousness.”

This unconscious religiousness is a “latent relation to transcendence inherent in man.”

May be conceived as a relationship between the “imminent self and the transcendent thou.”

Also highlighting a point Dr. Batya shared, where one differentiates what “is” and what “ought to be.”

“However one wishes to formulate it, we are confronted with the transcendent unconscious, as part impartial of the spiritual unconscious.”

“Man has always stood in an intentional relation to transcendence, even if only on an unconscious level.”

Reference

Excerpts from “Man’s Search for Ultimate Meaning” by Viktor E. Frankl, Chapter 2

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