Existentialist View Flashcards
___ deals with the dynamic or ever-changing transitions.
Existential Psychology
Life has no inherent meaning, it is our ___ that draws meaning to it.
choices
There are ___ Propositions of Existentialism, namely:
There are ___ Propositions of Existentialism, namely:
1. The Capacity for Self-Awareness
2. Freedom and Responsibility
3. Striving for Identity and Relationship to Others
4. The Search for Meaning
5. Anxiety as a Condition of Living
6. Awareness of Death and Nonbeing
___, ___, and ___ constitute the foundation of self-awareness.
The ___ our awareness, the ___ our possibilities for freedom.
We are ___ and do not have unlimited time to do what we want in life.
finite
We have the potential to take action or not to act; inaction is a ___.
decision
We choose our actions, and therefore we can partially create our ___.
destiny
___ is the product of discovering how are thrown or situated in the world and then, through commitment, living creatively,
Meaning
We are subject to ___, ___, ___, ___, and ___.
Loneliness, meaninglessness, emptiness, guilt, isolation
We are basically ___, yet we have an opportunity to relate to other beings.
alone
A characteristic existential theme is that people are ___ among alternatives and therefore play a large role in shaping their own destiny
free to choose
Schneider and Krug write that existential therapy embraces three values:
1. the freedom to ___ within the context of natural and self-imposed limitations.
2. the capacity to ___ on the meaning of our choices.
3. the capacity to ___ on the choices we make.
Schneider and Krug write that existential therapy embraces three values:
1. the freedom to become within the context of natural and self-imposed limitations.
2. the capacity to reflect on the meaning of our choices.
3. the capacity to act on the choices we make.
___ is an inauthentic mode of existence consists of lacking awareness of personal responsibility for our lives and passively assuming that our existence is largely controlled by external forces.
Inauthenticity
___ implies that we are responsible for our lives, for our actions, and for our failures to take action. From Sartre’s perspective people are condemned to freedom. He calls for a commitment to choosing for ourselves.
Freedom
___ is being aware of having evaded a commitment, or having chosen not to choose
Existential Guilt
___ is a condition that grows out of a sense of incompleteness, or a realization that we are not what we might have become.
Existential Guilt
___ implies that we are living by being true to our own evaluation of what is a valuable existence for ourselves.
Authenticity
Although our freedom to ___ (___ freedom) is limited by external reality, our freedom to ___ (existential ___) relates to our internal reality.
act, essential;
be, existential
People are concerned about preserving their ___, yet at the same time they have an interest in going outside of themselves to relate to other beings and to nature.
uniqueness and centeredness
As relational beings, we also strive for connectedness with others. Many existential writers discuss loneliness, uprootedness, and alienation, which can be seen as the failure to develop ties with ___.
others and with nature
t takes courage to discover the true “___” and to use its power to transcend those aspects of nonbeing that would destroy us (Tillich, 1952).
ground of our being
___ entails the will to move forward in spite of anxiety producing situations, such as facing our death (May, 1975).
Courage
One of the greatest fears of clients is that they will discover that there is ___, ___, ___, and that they are merely reflections of everyone’s expectations of them.
no core, no self, no substance
___, or being-in-the-world refers to the ability of individuals to be able to think about and reflect on events and to attribute meaning to them.
Dasein
___ is what we generally think of as the world, objects, the environment, and living beings. It includes drives, instincts, and natural laws and cycles such as sleeping and walking, living and dying. Keyword: environment
Umwelt
___ refers to interrelationships that only human beings may have. Keyword: human relationships
Mitwelt
___ emphasizes the importance of beliefts about the world that are religious or spiritual in nature. Keyword: spiritual values
Überwelt
___, one’s “own world,” is more than a subjective, inner experience; it is a self-awareness from which we see the world. Keyword: self-awareness
Eigenwelt
In time and being, ___ can ve viewed as “clock time” or in terms of space points on a clock or calendar.
Umwelt
In time and being, ___ time has a less quantitative function. For example, one cannot measure how much a person cares about another by the number of years that they have known each other.
Mitwelt
