existential crisis
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[edit]Noun
[edit]existential crisis (plural existential crises)
- (existentialism) A state of panic or feeling of intense psychological discomfort about questions of existence.
- 1963, “The Existential Crisis In Intensive Psychotherapy”, in Psychotherapy[1]:
- The existential crisis is, however, a crisis of our existence, our whole being. When we do find ourselves at that crossroad, everything we have and everything we are is on the scales.
Translations
[edit]state of panic
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