"Whoever grasps the ordo amoris of a man, has hold of man himself. He possesses him as moral subject - what crystal form is to crystal itself. He sees into this man as far as one can see into one's fellow. Behind the empirical multifold and complexity he sees the ever simply flowing basic contours of man, and this, rather than knowledge or will, deserves to qualify as the core of man as a spiritual being. He possesses in his spiritual make-up the original source that secretly spawns all that issues from man. And even more, it is the primordial determinant of that which incessantly places itself around him - in space his moral world, in time his fate, i.e., to become the quintessence of the possible that can happen to him and only to him" (Max Scheler)
In his book "The Essence of Man", Eric Frum reconstructs the various axes discussed in his previous writings, analyzing and expanding many issues and axes such as sadism, masochism, and destructive tendencies. In this book, he focuses on a new axis: human ability to destroy, narcissism, And attached to a forbidden relationship.
The author says in the introduction to his book: This book is devoted mostly to the study of the absence of love, and it deals with the issue of love, from a comprehensive perspective all Inclusiveness: the love of life, in an attempt to show that the love of life and independence, and overcome narcissism three things unite to form "the total symptoms of growth and openness "The total symptoms of annihilation and disintegration based on the love of death, the attachment of the disease to a forbidden relationship, and the harmful forms of narcissism. What prompted the author to delve deeper into the study of" total symptoms of annihilation and disintegration "is not only the knowledge acquired in his clinical experience but also by the political and social situation It has also evolved over the years Finally, as he identifies points of difference with Freudian orthodoxy, he adds in this book a contribution to the answer to fundamental questions that are in keeping with this age: the nature of evil and the possibility of man to choose between good and evil.
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