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Superficial Fatigue and Existential Fatigue -Subject Study for Philosophical Counseling-

  • PHILOSOPHY·THOUGHT·CULTURE
  • 2023, (41), pp.100~125
  • DOI : 10.33639/ptc.2023..41.005
  • Publisher : Research Institute for East-West Thought
  • Research Area : Humanities > Other Humanities
  • Received : December 19, 2022
  • Accepted : January 31, 2023
  • Published : January 31, 2023

Lee Jin Oh 1

1경희대학교

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ABSTRACT

In order for philosophical counseling to establish a unique position, it is important to present a methodology different from the existing counseling. However, it is difficult to lead people to philosophical counseling with this alone. People will go to a philosophical counselor when they think their problems are suitable to be dealt with in philosophical counseling rather than in psychiatry or psychological counseling. In this thesis, I will argue that 'existential fatigue' rather than 'superficial fatigue' is a suitable subject for philosophical counseling. To prove this claim, I will do four things: First, Han Byung-Ceol's argument that defines modern society as a 'fatigue society' is critically reviewed. Second, I will define 'existential fatigue' as an exhausted state in which an individual does not feel the meaning or value of existence, which is his or her own existence, and does not discover the possibility of realizing it. Third, I will reveal the historical background and ontological source of existential fatigue by exploring 'existential fatigue syndrome' in the context of nihilism. Finally, I will briefly mention the reason why existential 'fatigue', not existential 'anxiety', should be the subject of philosophical counseling and the resulting strengths.

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