EIRP Proceedings, Vol 2 (2007)
TEAMA DE VIAŢĂ SAU CONDIŢIA CREATORULUI ÎN SPAŢIUL EUROPEAN
Abstract
This paper approaches Otto Rank’s theory according to which the main cause of anxiety is the
individual’s separation from the loved beings and objects. Along one’s life, anxiety takes two forms:
the fear of life and the fear of death. The fear of life is the anxiety which appears when the person
becomes aware of his creative abilities which could separate him from the existing relationships.
Writers like Emil Cioran, Mihail Sebastian, Octavian Paler, Yukio Mishima, Ernest Hemingway
suffered from the fear of life, they were haunted by a tragic that brought about the loneliness of death.
It is what Kierkegaard called: ”the fatal disease”, the sin of the artist’s existence. The artistic process
implies an oscillation between acceptance and rejection, satisfaction and negation, life and death,
loneliness and happiness.
individual’s separation from the loved beings and objects. Along one’s life, anxiety takes two forms:
the fear of life and the fear of death. The fear of life is the anxiety which appears when the person
becomes aware of his creative abilities which could separate him from the existing relationships.
Writers like Emil Cioran, Mihail Sebastian, Octavian Paler, Yukio Mishima, Ernest Hemingway
suffered from the fear of life, they were haunted by a tragic that brought about the loneliness of death.
It is what Kierkegaard called: ”the fatal disease”, the sin of the artist’s existence. The artistic process
implies an oscillation between acceptance and rejection, satisfaction and negation, life and death,
loneliness and happiness.
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