CHAPTER TWELVE Flashcards
Central insight
at the center if what makes us humans
INTROSPECTION
Systematic observation of one’s own perceptions and thought processe
Living in bad faith creates 3 problems:
Living a cowardly life
Unhappiness
Is it impossible
Thrown-ness -
The circumstances of your existence
AUTHENTIC EXISTENCE
Coming to terms with existence; being honest, insightful, and morally correct
Anguish –
everything we do no matter what choice we have has a plus or minus, every once in a while, your choices go off the rails unintendedly and anguish is our response to this
Forlornness
Forlornness
Despair –
losing all hope that things can be better in the future, no matter how hard we try to do the right thing, sometimes things don’t go according to plan
SELF-ACTUALIZATION: RODGERS
People have one basic tendency and striving: to actualize, maintain, and enhance their own experience People can be understood only from the perspective of their phenomenal field
Rogers’s phenomenal field definition: the entire panorama of conscious experience
Actualization – the goal of existence is to satisfy this need
Nirvana –
a serene, selfless state
Enlightenment
overcoming the barriers of becoming one with something bigger than us
Anatta
term to describe a non-self, a separation of oneself
Anicca –
all things must pass, nothing is permanent, including us, past, present, future in terms of importance
Chronically accessible constructs
The construal’s that come up all the time in your mind, most easily
PERSONAL CONSTRUCTS
The way we construe the world is what we expect to see in the future