Man's Search for Himself . In any age courage is the simple virtue needed for a human being to traverse the rocky road from infancy to maturity of personality. But in an age of anxiety, an age of her morality and personal isolation, courage is a sine qua non .
Courage is the capacity to meet the anxiety which arises as one achieves freedom.
It is the willingness to differentiate, to move from the protecting realms of parental dependence to new levels of freedom and integration. This is one important side of the loneliness now experienced by people in the Western world. It is our capacity to mold ourselves. Freud was in error when he held that religion is per se a compulsion neurosis. Some religion is and some is not.