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The theme of this paper is that existentialism is, philosophically, a theory of being without meaning and, psychologically, an analysis of experience without therapy. It has no relevance to psychoanalysis or any scientific study of man. Wolstein suggests that the absolute immediatism of existentialism is a massive defense against the horrors of the past and the hazards of the future and represents a flight to irrational despair.