... loneliness, fear, and questions who they are without a significant other. Man will project the deficiencies of the relationship onto himself; this takes a great toll on his self-respect. Man cannot function well without love - especially if he has loved and lost. Man will often surrenders his individuality ... for the comforts of the herd. Man's desire to be a part of a group results in conformity. Man is driven to find validity in himself through the acceptance of others. People will strive to meet the expectations and needs of others. Man will go to extreme lengths to have security .....

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... this experience is possible, it is tantamount to experiencing it forever. Despair becomes an eternal sickness that the self loses its capability of dying in the same sense that the body dies of sickness. An impossibility, wherein what happens is that the dying of despair transforms itself constantly into living thing. It is precisely self-consuming, that you cannot do anything else but ... the calculations of his understanding . Abraham befalls in this sense to be overridden by madness caused by the great love to his son that it becomes clearer his suffering becomes a hatred for oneself...

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• Grade Level: Undergraduate