God of the subconsciousness .. the human and the search for the ultimate meaning

Victor Frankl published the book "The God of the Unconscious" two years after publishing his most famous book "Man's Search for Meaning," in some aspects it complemented his thesis, and in others it explained and deepened it. Frankl here speaks directly about the relationship between religiosity and mental health, and how human tendencies toward religiosity and spirituality are not detached from mental health but, on the contrary, this spiritual inclination is considered an innate human instinct embedded in the deepest layers of human consciousness. Victor Frankl pointed to this instinct in some parts of the book as "repressed religiosity," which may rust and turn into a pathological phenomenon if it is not realized in human experience. Therefore, he argued that the goal of psychotherapy is not only to raise instinctive phenomena to consciousness and human responsibility but also to spirituality. Frankl focused in "The God of the Unconscious" on analyzing the phenomenon of conscience as a manifestation of spiritual awareness. The conscience is an irrational phenomenon, meaning that at its deepest levels it relies on intuition rather than on moral rules or external preaching. The conscience depends on anticipation and intuition of what is not present but must exist, and therefore, like love, it is a feeling of what is unrealized that leads to the realization of the individual's repressed potential. Frankl called this process self-transcendence, which is the human tendency toward something or someone outside of oneself, and through this tendency, the human being completes himself and achieves his self through interaction and integration with the world and others outside himself.