The notion of transcendence and psychoanalysis in Karl Stern’s works

• Authors: Piotr Szałek
• Languages of publication: EN

Abstracts

EN

This paper is a study of the essential property of human existence – transcendence, whose characteristics can be derived from Karl Stern’s works. By criticizing the model of contemporary psychology for its mechanistic character, Stern tries to prove that it is psychoanalysis that enables us to found a humanistic base for understanding human transcendence towards God. In this way, Stern passes over the fact that the humanistic sense of transcendence was established in Victor Frankl’s philosophy of existence. Stern blemishes the basic meanings of Freud’s psychoanalysis, which, as such, is not suitable for Stern’s procedure of humanization.

Keywords

EN

transcendence; psychoanalysis; logotheraphy

• Publisher: Committee for Psychological Sciences, Polish Academy of Sciences
• Journal: Polish Psychological Bulletin
• Year: 2012
• Volume: 43
• Issue: 4
• Pages: 324-332

Contributors

author

Piotr Szałek

• niversity of Social Sciences and Humanities, Faculty in Katowice, Kossutha 9, 40-844 Katowice, Poland