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Loneliness, Emptiness, Anxiety in Modern Society

Eternalised

CHAPTER

The Fear of Loneliness

The specter of loneliness hovers outside like the fog drifting in from the sea. Death is the symbol of ultimate separation, aloneness and isolation from other human beings. We replace our deep emotional experiences with superficial talk, and we tend thus to become emptier and lonelier. Man needs relations with other people in order to orient himself. When he is alone, he is afraid that he will lose his experience of being a self,. He is constituted by a collection of mirrors, representing the expectations of other people.

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