… It is a basic contention of this book that the purpose of life is to survive and to fulfill one's
life and to help others important to oneself to do the same. … Thus, it is suggested that
fulfillment and trauma form the central human dialectic, and the purpose of this book is to
explore and to help provide a framework for it. Only philosophers have dared to explore
something as large as life or happiness. Yet lately traumatology has been an expanding
discipline spanning what can be damaged, from physiology to the soul. … However, before …