Grace And Danger
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https://doi.org/10.65828/n2t43h23Keywords:
Existential therapy, grace, dividuation, organism, overhumanAbstract
Far from being manufactured by training and/or expertise, the moment of meeting in therapy is an accident, an event – akin, perhaps, to what theologians would call grace. It is collateral, i.e. a mere side effect to the existential therapist's main task of facilitating organismic dividuation in the client. Far from providing a bandage to the injuries of living, existential-phenomenological therapy is an invitation to both client and therapist to leave behind the human for the overhuman, the atomistic self for 'no-self', unity for multiplicity: it is an incitement to living dangerously.
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