Some Idle and Random Thoughts on Phenomenology and Mental Health

Abstract

Beliefs are necessary for living, but some are necessarily incongru- ous with others. Realisation of this might help us to be more under- standing and sympathetic to those powerfully driven "To Know" what is more idiosyncratic, individualistic and mistaken. Existentialisms which emphasize existence rather than essences can encompass the issues, while much called Phenomenology is a symp- tom rather than a logical solution of the paradoxes involved. Intui- tion, and imagination are the basis of human creativity, but for different purposes they require social, pragmatic, psychological, and empirical confirmation. Confident assertion are only sometimes con- vincing, but repetition by enough of a society helps an ideology.