Existential vacuum: in search of the meaning of life
Introduction.
That is the main belief of those who experience the heartbreaking feeling of the neglect for living, the weight of injustices and a kind of disconnection of everything that surrounds them. the lack of freedom, and that cannot be detached from a deep existential emptiness that engulfs them stronger and stronger. Emptiness to which society contributes with its prevailing messages related to individual values and immediate satisfaction. Although they are also those who navigate in the search for pleasure and immediate satisfaction with the sole purpose of anesthetizing their suffering. The difference is that the latter do not repair the void they experience.
Nothing fills them, nothing satisfies them and, precisely, that ends up catching them in a psychological state of suffering. In most cases, it derives in a deep depression or self-destructive behaviors. detected or as someone who has been carried out by the achievement of pleasure to avoid suffering. Unfortunately, a very widespread phenomenon today. Let’s deepen.In the depths of the abyss the development of a sense of life can be frustrated when the goals and objectives do not finish or meet;When the clash between expectations and reality is so strong that only disappointment makes an appearance, or when crisis situations threaten the feeling of security and certainty and there are no appropriate tools to face them. Take a painful abyss.
Developing.
It is as if inside them they housed a dense desert, that in which the absurd dominates existence and almost all the ability to connect and feel others is lost. defined as’ the failure to find meaning in life, the feeling that one has no reason to live, to fight, to wait … that one is unable to find a goal or a guideline in life, the feeling ofThat, although efforts strive a lot in their work, they really have no aspiration ”. They prevent personal transcendence capacity.
And in relation to this, other authors affirm that the loss of meaning is associated with the disappearance of the other, the supremacy of individualistic values and obtaining pleasure as a mechanism – raised – to be happy. In this way, the person clings to their individual desires, and the meaning of social references, such as coexistence, solidarity or mutual respect among others, dilutes.Thus, when reality and the means to achieve happiness are confused in themselves, there is a risk of falling into a vacuum.
Pleasant short -term emotions, such as enjoyment or joy, provide pleasure, but not self-realization and as all pleasure imply the danger of creating slavery or addiction. Well, but also made by him. Therefore, the meaning of life is related to the destiny you want and needs;Well, through that desire, man intends to offer freedom to his own development, since when he lives fully, it is when his freedom transcends the limits of his immanence and understands that the meaning of his life is not only reduced to something material andfinite, but it transcends, goes further.
When circumstances do not meet the expectations of their life project and the nonsense takes it to the abyss of existential vacuum. It is made up of body and biological field. Psychic dimension. This is the psychodynamic reality, that is, the psychological and emotional universe. NOTIC DIMENSION OR SPIRITUAL DIMENSION. Encompasses the phenomenological areas of the soul. Therefore, this dimension transcends the other two. In addition, thanks to her, the human being can integrate the harmful experiences of existence and develop a healthy life at a psychological level.
He reluctant and is lost in the maze of his existence has conflicts in his spiritual dimension. He is not able to integrate his wounds, he may not even identify them;But neither of finding a why to its existence, so that it drowns in suffering and experiences a lack of meaning, coherence and purpose or what is the same: an existential vacuum. mental disorders. That is, the break in the noic or spiritual dimension, that feeling that existence makes no sense, is expressed in the psychological dimension through three groups of main symptoms: depressive symptoms.
In this way, people trapped in existential vacuum is as if they covered their gaze and their feeling with an unconscious veil, that prevents him from finding the meaning of his life and leading them to chronic dissatisfaction and despair and. So what to do to find that sense? Carl Jung, man needs to find meaning to continue his way in the world. Therefore, without that meaning, it is lost in nothing, in anyone’s land, wandering in the maze of existence. that reveals it. Now, despite the fact that values arise from personal intimacy, they culminate later in universal values, which coincide with cultural, religious or philosophical systems. of life, as well as the maintenance of emotional ties, as long as, do not put all the responsibility of being happy in them. Somehow, a life with meaning is a life rootes socially.
French sociologist and philosopher Durkheim reflects very well the problem of social uprooting and the consequences that it entails: ‘[when the individual] is individualized beyond a certain point, if it separates too radically from other beings, men or things, there isIncommunicated with the same sources that should normally feed, it has nothing to apply anymore. By making the void around him, he has made the void within herself and he has nothing left to reflect more than her own misery.
It is no longer subject to meditation other than nothing that is in it and the sadness that is its consequence ’. Now, it is not about seeking guilty, or saviors, but rather to adopt a reflective and responsible attitude that allows us to investigate within us, find a purpose and get out of that existential vacuum. Because it is true that there is no more complicated question than that which answers what is the meaning of life for us. Each of us may change our vital purpose at each stage of our existence. Therefore, what matters, as Viktor Frankl affirmed, is not the meaning of life in general terms, but the concrete meaning of each individual’s life at a given time.
In addition, Frankl states that we should not inquire in the sense of life, but to understand that it is us who gets involved. That is, we can respond to life by responding to our own life, which means that responsibility is the intimate essence of our existence. Because although we have invested time, energy, effort and heart, life, sometimes, is not fair. And despite the fact that at the moment it is totally understandable, we have two options: accept that we cannot change what happened, that there is nothing to do and we are victims of circumstances or, accept that we cannot effectively change what we areIt has happened, but our attitude towards it. Therefore, we are responsible for our actions, our emotions and thoughts, our decisions.
And therefore, we have the option to decide why, before what or who we consider us responsible. Therefore, the meaning of life is always changed, never ceases. Every day and every moment we have the opportunity to make decisions that will determine whether we are subject to our own circumstances or although we act with dignity, listening to our true self with responsibility and free of the traps of pleasure and immediate satisfaction. But our attitude towards it. Therefore, we are responsible for our actions, our emotions and thoughts, our decisions. And therefore, we have the option to decide why, before what or who we consider us responsible.
Conclusions.
Therefore, the meaning of life is always changed, never ceases. Every day and every moment we have the opportunity to make decisions that will determine whether we are subject to our own circumstances or although we act with dignity, listening to our true self with responsibility and free of the traps of pleasure and immediate satisfaction. But our attitude towards it. Therefore, we are responsible for our actions, our emotions and thoughts, our decisions.
And therefore, we have the option to decide why, before what or who we consider us responsible. Therefore, the meaning of life is always changed, never ceases. Every day and every moment we have the opportunity to make decisions that will determine whether we are subject to our own circumstances or although we act with dignity, listening to our true self with responsibility and free of the traps of pleasure and immediate satisfaction. Therefore, the meaning of life is always changed, never ceases.
Every day and every moment we have the opportunity to make decisions that will determine whether we are subject to our own circumstances or although we act with dignity, listening to our true self with responsibility and free of the traps of pleasure and immediate satisfaction. Therefore, the meaning of life is always changed, never ceases. Every day and every moment we have the opportunity to make decisions that will determine whether we are subject to our own circumstances or although we act with dignity, listening to our true self with responsibility and free of the traps of pleasure and immediate satisfaction.
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