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A HUMAN BEING VERSUS THE NATURE OF THINGS (EXCERPTS)
KAZIMIERZ GELLETA


[...] The concept of the nature of things evolves and is constantly modified alongside the changes that a human being experiences himself. Within the relationship a human being, a thing, a modified change of the nature of thing occurs, but things also change the human being himself. Some can make him active and creative, while others passive and destructive. [...] A piano or a pistol? Shoes or a tank? Food or clothes? The answer is by no means clear. However, the same objects can turn a human being into a better or worse person. A knife, for instance, can be used to divide a loaf of bread and support life, but it can also open veins and become an instrument which puts somebody to death. A computer can be a working tool and a springboard for development for one person, whereas for another it will become a means of escape from reality to virtual illusion leading to addiction. [...]
More or less consciously, a human being [...] looks, in a psychological meaning, for a specific form of fear reducer in the nature of things. A reducer of the existential fear which things are supposed to free him from. Therefore, he makes endeavours towards various things that will ensure a state of felicity or at least bring the peace that he misses so much. He acquires, processes and collects. Nowadays he mainly collects the thing which modern culture has changed into a real fetish - money.
A universal thing, as it seems, which can be freely exchanged for anything else. But does it really provide the desired peace? The one who owns much has also much to lose. It can arouse anxiety about losing things. The anxiety makes things win control over a human being. [...]
Where does the state of things that is characteristic of their nature exist then? When does a thing find its ideal position? When is it cast in its role by a human being? We ask questions. A question is usually a sign of anxiety. Let it be only a cognitive anxiety but often with an existential anxiety behind. The anxiety can be creative and productive or passive and destructive. We are surrounded with things, we acquire some of them, modify others, create completely new ones, exchange or share them with one another, we give some of them to selected people or there may be some things that we would like to keep all to ourselves.

KAZIMIERZ GELLETA, a senior lecturer in the Department of Psychology at the University of Rzeszów, a psychotherapist. In his own company "GELTER" he is responsible for psychological therapy, aid and education.



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