Existentialismen och socialt arbete
Sammanfattning: This thesis was an attempt to examine how existentialism could be used in social work by using it to interpret how youths with experience from an institutional environment understand their existence. This was done by a hermeneutic-phenomenological interpretation of texts written by the youths in two published books. The youths’ understanding of their existence were put into themes and presented as “Limited freedom”, “Suffering”, “Hidden personality”, “Relations”, “Lost existence” and “The future”. The different themes were interpreted through theories related to existentialism and this showed that the youths experienced existential anxiety by sensing what Jean-Paul Sartre calls Nothingness in different forms, by what Martin Heidegger calls their longing for an authentic living and a consciousness of their own death. The youths were trying to flee from this existential anxiety by living in what Sartre calls Bad faith or through what Heidegger calls living according to Das man. The youths also understood relations as strengthening which were interpreted as Sartres concept of becoming someone through relations.
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