<p>I’m definitely going to try out the new essay examination to try to get in. Just out of curiosity, is anyone else doing this? If so then why?</p>
<p>Nope. Even if I was applying to Bard, I wouldn’t choose the essay option. You have to write 2,500 words for each of the four essays, which is too much. Good luck!</p>
<p>I’m doing it! b/c I’m currently taking a gap year in high school after finishing junior year and I don’t want to go back and finish another year of high school!</p>
<p>I’m writing one about the novel frankenstein, but I can’t seem to start my hands on other stuff. 3 more to go! Time is ticking… which ones are you working one JYLbleh?</p>
<p>P.S. This is basically my thesis for Frankenstein. Cheers! </p>
<p>Linked closely to ontological grounding is the need for transcendence, a term Fromm uses in three distinct senses.
Above all, perhaps, the need for transcendence implies a need to rise above our sense of throwness or creatureliness by becoming creators in our own right; by furthering or engendering life.
Transcendence in this sense is closely linked to what psychoanalysts call transforming passive into active, or the need for mastery.
But it is important to distinguish healthy from pathological manifestations of this need.
Life, as Fromm reminds us, is “the miracle, the inexplicable”, and the uninhibited destroyer enjoys a sense of power and exultation similar in intensity, if not in kind, to that of the creative person.
This avenue of transcendence is a warped and distorted expression of what presumably might have been healthy human faculties- a product of inner misery, not of joy. - The Legacy of Erich Fromm</p>