According to May, the neurotic’s attempt to reduce anxiety and feel safe by constricting Dasein has a paradoxical effect: It results in an existence so limited as to be all the more easily destroyed....

According to May, the neurotic’s attempt to reduce anxiety and feel safe by constricting Dasein has a paradoxical effect: It results in an existence so limited as to be all the more easily destroyed. (a) Is this true of the case history discussed in the Appendix? (b) If I become a workaholic and ignore my family in order to spend most of my time writing textbooks, how will this affect my ontological anxiety and guilt? (c) Is becoming an altruist who cares only about other people, and not about oneself, a good way to avoid the dangers of a limited existence?