Neurosis
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Neurosis
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Maslow considered the term to be obsolete and preferred the term Human Diminution
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Abraham Maslow felt the term "neurosis" was antiquated. He described it as a spiritual disorder (see his quote below). Maslow prefers to term Human Diminution
On the LP we could consider neurosis to be partially caused by Disjuncture, i.e, a mis-alignment between Spiritual Ego and Bodily Ego. Definately such a misalignment would result in human diminution, failure to Realize ones full Human Potential
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Strictly speaking. neurosis means an illness of the nerves. a relic we can very well do without today. In addition. using the label "psychological illness" puts neurosis into the same universe of discourse as ulcers, lesions, bacterial invasions, broken bones, or tumors. But by now. we have learned very well that it is better to consider as rather related to spiritual disorders, to loss of meaning. to doubt about the goals of life. to grief and anger over a lost love. to seeing life in a different way, to loss of courage or of hope, to despair over the future, to dislike for oneself. to recognition that one's life is being wasted. or that there is no possibility of joy or love. etc. These are all failings away from full humanness, from the full blooming of human nature. They are losses of human possibility. of what might have been and could yet be perhaps.[1]
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Footnotes
- ↑ Maslow, A. H. The Farther Reaches of Human Nature. Viking, 1971. p. 30.