Assertion:As per Aaron Beck, just as there is an unconscious, which is the repository of instincts there is a spiritual unconscious, which is the storehouse of love, aesthetic awareness, and values of life.

Reasoning: Neurotic anxieties arise when the problems of life are attached to the physical, psychological or spiritual aspects of one’s existence. 

Assertion (A) is not true but Reasoning (R) is correct.

Frankl emphasised the role of spiritual anxieties in leading to meaninglessness and hence it may be called an existential anxiety, i.e. neurotic anxiety of spiritual origin. Just as there is an unconscious, which is the repository of instincts  there is a spiritual unconscious, which is the storehouse of love, aesthetic awareness, and values of life. Neurotic anxieties arise when the problems of life are attached to the physical, psychological or spiritual aspects of one’s existence. Frankl emphasised the role of spiritual anxieties in leading to meaninglessness and hence it may be called an existential anxiety, i.e. neurotic anxiety of spiritual origin.