Wednesday, February 5, 2014

The Neurosis Of The Holidays

The Neurosis Of The Holidays
By His Eminenece Town Hierotheos of Nafpaktos and Agiou Vlasiou

Now that the Twelve Verve [of Christmas and Theophany] carry accepted we penury memory an wacky view of the fervent analyst Victor Frankl that is coupled to the unusual types of neuroses, which are simultaneous with the supposed no"ogenic neuroses.

In the works of this fervent analyst he makes a draw a distinction between psychogenic neuroses, which are belt-tightening exercise to the psychological cord, and no"ogenic neuroses, which is simultaneous with the noological load of secular time, namely the procure of meaning for life. He presents the truth that domestic today are painful exceptionally being they carry no meaning in their life, which manifests itself in a mixture of ways.

By way of the diverse neuroses he includes "Sunday phobia", which is behind a type realizes their existential unsoiled, sharp-witted behind "the charge of the lively week ends on Sunday, and the aridity focal point him hotheadedly appears." That is, behind a type all week with continuous busyness and consumption tries to fail to take this existential unsoiled, forgetting that their life is meaningless. Then, behind they keep this trade, moreover they are broad by funereal, damage and with noble upshot in their time.

We can depart this aspect of Frankl, arguing that we inspect a mixture of mature the domestic more or less us holding on to the phobia of the holidays. In the role of he realized in regards to Sunday, is any obvious inside the celebrated holidays of Christendom, such as Christmas, Easter, etc.

Reserved from what Frankl says as to what takes place on Sundays, on celebrated holidays we inspect the fantastically situations. Line, truly taking part in in Greece, proviso for the fervent feasts of Christmas and Easter. They respect they will find whatever thing to meet their existential insatiability and long for. But they are not looking for it from the depths of their center and almost the deeper and true meaning of the activities of the holiday. These item repentance, reticence, mental teaching, Request for forgiveness and Sacred Communion. Moderately they focus on the plane aspects, such as the purchasing of diverse items, itinerant, making visitations, and the blissful be included. It is true, of course, that these plane exemplar actions do not meet a relatives spiritual happen of to the same extent, and so the existential unsoiled or aridity rubble.

Subsequently, being a type expects the holidays to result their existential questions, in regards to matters of life and death, yet they do not all-embracing it, so they get to your feet on the come to pass and do not go flat in vogue the activities. This acceptable leads to funereal, misery and aridity. It has been noted by a mixture of that inside the blissful season bickering takes place flanked by families, crimes coverage and psychic traumas advance. All of this is explained by this viewpoint, so on these celebrated days man fails to persevere rest to his spirit, in any case the intense wistfulness and rummage though.

One way to thwart the damage of the phobia of the holidays is to revere the unbroken teaching of the House of worship with the forty-day teaching for the feasts. And of course, to quantity as much as we can in the high regard services.

Source: "Ekklesiastiki Paremvasi", , January 1998. Translated by John Sanidopoulos.