Existential Flashcards
Current focus
Feel alone, facing anxiety of isolation
Basic premise
We’re not a victim of circumstance because to a large extent we are what we choose to be
Bases therapeutic practice in
An understanding if what it takes to be hum
Existential practitioners strive to understand
Dee human exp
6 dimensions or propositions of human condition
capacity of SELF AWARENESS
Freedom and responsibility
Creating identity, establish meaningful relationships
Search for meaning, values, purpose, goals
Anxiety a living condition
Awareness of death and non-being
We can reflect and make choices bc
Were capable of s-a
Greater awareness
Greater freedom
Live fully
Consciousness of own freedom
Existential anxiety
Root of most other human capacities
S-a
Inauthencity of not accepting personal responsibility
Bad faith
Evaded commitment, chose not choose
Existential Guilt
Major existential neurosis of human life
Meaninglessness
Condition of emptiness or hollowness
Existential vacuum
Constructive form of normal anx, can lead to growth
Exis anx