The crisis of the modernity and the enigma of man

By analysing modernity’s shift from the monopoly of consciousness and the spirit to the increasingly more prominent focus on the body as our anchor to reality, this study wants to assert that the damage done by the ‘spirit’ cannot be easily undone, and that it resurfaces in periodic phases in altered manifestations. The vacancy that was left where the religious and spiritual impulse had reigned supreme requested a substitute because man needs a semblance of belief to make sense of the chaotic reality that surrounds him. The need for illusions alleviates the fear of being accidental products of creation which do not serve any meaning or do not have any special value. It is precisely this quality that drives the eternal quest of man for meaning and truth and, it is my belief, that we can get a better understanding of the human condition if we analyse the illusions that drive us