ABSTRACT
Loneliness is constituted by the intrinsic activities and structures of both self-consciousness and intentionality-and loneliness is, therefore, permanent and unavoidable. It is the preexisting concern, the presupposition, to invoke a Kantian concept, and socialization is the sought-after remedy. It also implies that in order to understand human existence, one must first address its emergence, its development within the human psyche, its dynamic and meaning. This chapter demonstrates that there exists a universal and necessary relation between a specific immaterialist or mentalist theory of consciousness, which people wholeheartedly support, and the inevitability of loneliness. It follows that the therapeutic interventions designed to address loneliness, as the most significant crisis facing each of the people individually-apart from death-will ultimately depend on which of the two conflicting theories of the mind we endorse. Thus, behavioral and cognitive therapies are empirical, evidence-based practices that focus on the present in promoting psychological relief.
