Recently I woke up in the morning, and shortly before that, I dreamed the phrase “How to be a man?”. Can you help me with this question? L. Z.
Who, if not me, dear woman, for example,
you realize, I have my silly day; it need not make you worry but more. (A Depression is reliable.) So: dreams are foams, I have had to say psychoanalyst known; for if they all mean something to you not it would be with the work at all.
but Now to your question “How to be a man?”. (Whether dreamed or not.) In a very trivial sense, they would not have to worry the question, of course. You are, in fact, always been: a man in the sense of genetic belonging to the genus. If you were a chimp, would you remember, and certainly (despite supposedly 99 percent of the same genetic makeup). Even more, if you were a hedgehog or a snail. A man is a man is a man.
But the question (with a long Tradition), as it is more a person in a “re” is referred to, has been answered, nor from the world managed. What do you mean by that, is rather in the direction of Goethe’s “Helpful man was / is noble and good”. Man it is so not easy, man, you must be in the first place. This should roughly correspond to the meaning of your question. In the case of Goethe, it goes more like this: “Because the sole / distinguishes him / her From all beings we know.”
Dismay power costs to be.
You can of the heights of the Weimar also in everyday life to translate: “Be a mentsh.” This is New York’s Yiddish: A “mentsh”, or in German transcription: a mentsch is a human person, with his fellow friendly person.
“Friendly” seems to be less than “noble, helpful and good”, but it is a very everyday property. Who knows, he could be classy, but what is the meaning of kindness, knows every person (hopefully). Humanity in this sense is not a genetically built-in automatism, but a cultural performance. There are on the one hand, traditions in favour of, on the other hand, these activities must be carried out again and again. It sometimes costs no effort, sometimes even great.
It is now, but not so that it in principle would be easier to be a bad guy. Dismay power costs to be. To be A mentsch, in contrast, has the advantage that it is an often easily over long distances from the Hand or from the soul. You can make it to a kind of basic setting, thanks to which one’s self and fellow human beings life easier.
The psychoanalyst Peter Schneider answered every Wednesday questions in the philosophy of everyday life. Send us your questions to gesellschaft@tagesanzeiger.ch
Created: 28.08.2019, 09:09 PM
