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When mapping psychological concepts onto the Tree of Life, we usually think of Freud and Jung. The Jungian Self aligns with the Neshamah, the Ego with the Ruach, and the Shadow and Freudian Id reside in the neshesh.
But what about using imagination to do the same with Viktor Frankl’s Logotherapy? Let’s find out through an alternative perspective to increase understanding.
Logotherapy
As covered on the channel, Logotherapy is future-oriented and rooted in Teleology. It helps people find existential meaning or reason, which cannot be given externally but must be determined by oneself.
Qabalah
As a backbone of Western Esotericism, the Qabalah helps us navigate life obstacles while engaging the higher aspects of our being. Eternalized in its ageless glyph — the Tree of Life — it maps both reality and the human psyche.
Potentialities
Logotherapy views potentialities as transitory. By actualizing them, we turn them into realities stored in the past where nothing is irretrievably lost, and everything is irrevocably stored.
“Man constantly makes his choice concerning the mass of his present potentialities; which of these will be condemned to nonbeing and which will be actualized…