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A Case of Tragic Optimism: Volunteer Counsellors' Experience of Meaning
Journal of Psychology in Africa, 2012This study applied concepts from logotherapy to construct the meaning that volunteer crisis counsellors experienced by working with victims of crime. Data were collected from seven participants who delivered services at community-driven crisis centre using a qualitative approach. The data were analysed thematically.
Juan A Nel, Henry Mason
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Do physicians need tragic optimism?
Internal Medicine JournalAbstractIn 2016, as a trainee doctor, I wrote a paper on changing the culture of medicine. I felt the medical system was broken back then, and it seems even less functional now, with higher rates of burnout, dropout and staff shortages nationally. As a result of a lack of resources, it feels impossible to provide the care to our communities expected of
Susannah Ward
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Tragic optimism: an integrative meaning-centred approach to trauma treatment
Counselling Psychology Quarterly, 2019The purpose of this article is to first explain the concept of Tragic Optimism (TO) and why it is necessary for effective counselling and trauma therapy.
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Grant Watson and the Aborigine: A Tragic Voice in an Age of Optimism
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Tragic Optimism, Lethal Innocence, and Illusions in After the Fall
The Arthur Miller Journal, 2022abstract Arthur Miller’s discourse on universal guilt and tragedy manifests in numerous aspects of his autobiographical play After the Fall. This article incorporates a moral paradigm according to Holocaust survivor Victor Frankl: reality is tragic due to pain, guilt, and death.
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ESD: Power, politics, and policy: “Tragic optimism” from Latin America
Journal of Environmental Education, 2016ABSTRACTIn light of the challenging developmental issues confronting the countries of Latin America, this response article analyzes the power and resistance of education for sustainable development from both theoretical and policy perspectives. Of particular concern are the neo-productivist strategies driving the latest stage of capitalist development.
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Greece and Rome, 1942
An ἀγών between the dignity and aspiration of man and the apparently overwhelming power of the gods or of circumstance recurs frequently as a theme in the Greek tragedies. The solution proposed by the Greek writers was always positive and encouraging to man. The same theme is found in the Aeneid, and the answer is not dissimilar to the solution offered
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An ἀγών between the dignity and aspiration of man and the apparently overwhelming power of the gods or of circumstance recurs frequently as a theme in the Greek tragedies. The solution proposed by the Greek writers was always positive and encouraging to man. The same theme is found in the Aeneid, and the answer is not dissimilar to the solution offered
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‘Her Heritage Was that Tragic Optimism’: Edwardian Pastoral
2017George Orwell suggested that proletarian literature began before the First World War when Ford Madox Ford, the editor of the English Review, met D.H. Lawrence and saw in him the portent of a new class finding expression in literature. Chapter one of this book explores the extent to which Ford was already anticipating the ideas of William Empson in his ...
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Pedagogical IMAGE
Introduction. The subject of the study is the concept of “tragic optimism” by F.V. Nietzsche. The author identifi es the anthropological and humanistic aspects of the phenomena accompanying optimism, among which are the man as a measure of being; the life-affirming philosophy of will in the aspect of humility with what cannot be changed; the will as a ...
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Introduction. The subject of the study is the concept of “tragic optimism” by F.V. Nietzsche. The author identifi es the anthropological and humanistic aspects of the phenomena accompanying optimism, among which are the man as a measure of being; the life-affirming philosophy of will in the aspect of humility with what cannot be changed; the will as a ...
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