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totally equal to him/his-self. This ego-centered according to the theologian G. Florovsky, for a
existence of individuality – the being of human man created by God, life and existence do not
nature – is so similar to other nature’s beings, coincide. The main problematic context from
but surprisingly separated by an “unbridgeable Christian psychology perspective, thus shifts
gap” from another such nature. from a secure solution of existential isolation
problem to the problem of the interrelation
The desire to integrate with the world, with (mostly antinomic) between life, spiritually gi-
others, driven by fear of existential isolation, ven by God. and existence generated by human
according to Yalom, is the driving force behind nature, within the individual himself. A matter
many interpersonal relationships. „Getting out of living life inspired by God is no less challen-
of this state of interpersonal fusion means fa- ging and emotionally troubling than facing the
cing existential isolation, accompanied by fear abyss of anxiety in existential isolation. Living
and powerlessness.“ (Yalom, 1999). According through one‘s own existence reveals the task of
to Rank, birth is a symbol of any process of symbolic comprehension of the spiritual con-
getting out of immersion into wholeness. The tent and meaning of life. For Christian psycho-
child, argues Rank, is afraid of life itself (Yalom, logy the individual path away from horror of
1999). The process of fusion is the reverse of the the uncanny (destruction of values, devaluation
process of birth, it is a movement towards non- of morality, ethical emptiness, loneliness and
birth. The salvatory fantasy of non-loneliness meaninglessness) lies in the symbolic provision
vails (denies) the reality of existence as a form for life of the human spirit in its collision with
of being of a human nature and the inevitability the fearful and doomed logic of created exi-
of living through one‘s own being in its natura- stence.
lism, objectivity and finitude.
References:
It is hard to imagine that for a created being the 1. Ялом И. Экзистенциальная психотерапия /Yalom
problem of existential isolation could be ever I.D. Existential Psychotherapy/. М.: “Класс”, 1999
solved or even mitigated. On the other hand,

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