Existential Loneliness

"We're born alone, we live alone, we die alone. Only through our love and friendship can we create the illusion for the moment that we're not alone." —Orson Welles

Timestamps:
0:00 Introduction: The loneliness epidemic
1:50 The problem of other minds
3:57 Loneliness as social pain
5:44 Ontological insecurity
7:38 Relationships as cosmology of two
10:09 Conclusion: Logotherapy

References:
- John Cacioppo and William Patrick: Loneliness: Human Nature and the Need for Social Connection
- Ingrid Bolmsjö et al: Existential loneliness: An attempt at an analysis of the concept and the phenomenon
- R. D. Laing: The Divided Self: An Existential Study in Sanity and Madness
- Erich Fromm: The Art of Loving
- Victor Frankl: Man's Search for Meaning

Image: The Monk by the Sea by Caspar David Friedrich