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Do you agree or disagree with Rollo May's belief that human behavior is motivated by an underlying sense of anxiety and dread? Why?

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As you evaluate his existential theories, please note how I do not agree with the bleak tone of his ideas. He seems to be a bit too hasty to generalize that we all have this foreboding sense of apprehension or anxiety that motivates us. I feel like this doom and gloom ...

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