Abstract

AGUIAR, Eloisa Nogueira. Life as drama: rethinking the role of the client in psychotherapy. Estud. pesqui. psicol. [online]. 2011, vol.11, n.2, pp. 648-663. ISSN 1808-4281.

The article searches a discussion about the role of the client in psychotherapy, from the thought of José Ortega y Gasset. If the psychotherapy is the preoccupation with the existential experience, his philosophy offers great value, therefore places human life in the center of his inquiries. Life is a personal project that entails both circumstances and subjectivity. Life requires a process of “quefazer”. To live is to feel oneself fatally compelled to exercise liberty, to decide who we are going to be in this world. This is the dramatical character of the life. This view helps to explain his sharp denial of a human essence. Thus, the role of the client gets excited, as well as its expectation in relation to the psychologist.

Keywords : Life; Drama; Psychotherapy; Ortega y Gasset.

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