How do we break through the illness of relationship? — on the viewpoint of my book “Erich Fromm and Mysticism”

Abstract

Fromm and Frankl, both have a point of deep sameness. Both stand on the same viewpoint, that man must elucidate the psychopathy in the relationship with “the fundamental desire for sense of life”, which results from “the existential specific character” of human being. Both insistence equally, that man can get the passion to live only by grasping the sense of life, and man can feel the sense of life only by binding together “the deep cords of love” (loving and being loved) with others, that is, “the deep cords of call & response”. When we turn now to the mentality of Japanese youth today from that viewpoint of both, we must feel the deep anxiety. The psychopathy, which is called recently “the expanded suicide”, the increase of suicide-intending youth, the cruel treatment for own child, IJIME (rag), etc. these are the keywords, which indicate today's mental desolation. So, now, Fromm and Frankl must be re-found by the youth! Really they are waiting for their encounter with both!