Lesson 11 - Rollo May Flashcards
This has roots in the writings of Søren Kierkegaard, concerned with both the experiencing person and the person’s experience
Modern existential psychology
(process) takes precedence over essence (product)
Existence
oppose the artificial split between subject and object. Stresses people’s search for meaning in their lives.
Existentialist
Takes an antitheoretical position, believing that theories tend to objectify people.
Existentialism
the basic unity of person and environment
Being in the world (dasein)
environment around us
Umwelt
relations with other people
Mitwelt
Toward self
Eigenwelt
Healthy people live in _______,________and___________ simultaneously
Umwelt, Mitwelt, and Eigenwelt
awareness of the possibility of one’s not being, through death or loss of awareness
Nonbeing or nothingness
People experience this when they become aware that their existence or some value identified with it might be destroyed.
Anxiety
Growth produces this type of anxiety to defined as that which is proportionate to the threat, does not involve repression, and can be handled on a conscious level
Normal Anxiety
Reaction that is disproportionate to the threat and that leads to repression and defensive behaviors. It is felt whenever one’s values are transformed into dogma. Blocks growth and productive action.
Neurotic Anxiety
Blocks growth and productive action
Dogma
This arises when people denied their potentialities
Guilt
This arises when a person fail to accurately perceive the needs of others
Guilt
This arises when a person remain blind to their dependence on the natural world.
Guilt
Both anxiety and guilt are?
ontological
that is, they refer to the nature of being and not to feelings arising from specific situations
Ontological
Delight in the presence of the other person and an affirming of [that person’s] value and development as much as one’s own.
Love
Action and intentionalities are?
Inseparable
the capacity to organize one’s self so that movement in a certain direction or toward a certain goal may take place.
Will
Without this there can be no love, only empty sentimentality or transient sexual arousal. This is also the source of will.
Care
Psychologically healthy people are able to combine this because both imply care, choice, action, and responsibility.
love and will
satisfied through sexual intercourse or some other release of sexual tension (physiological need)
Sex
psychological desire that seeks procreation or creation through an enduring union with a loved one, built on the foundation of philia
Eros
intimate nonsexual friendship between two people, takes time to grow, to develop, to sink its roots
Philia
esteem for the other, the concern for the other’s welfare beyond any gain that one can get out of it; disinterested love, typically, the love of God for man
Agape
blend all four forms of love
Healthy Adult Relationship
individual’s capacity to know that he is the determined one
Freedom
The design of the universe speaking through the design of each one of us. Our ultimate destiny is death, but on a lesser scale our destiny includes other biological properties such as intelligence, gender, size and strength, and genetic predisposition toward certain illnesses.
Destiny
freedom of doing or freedom of action
Existential Freedom
freedom of being or an inner freedom
Essential Freedom
seems to allow people to face their destiny and to gain their freedom of being
Physical confinement or the denial of liberty
are belief systems, both conscious and unconscious, that provide explanations for personal and social problems.
Cultural Myths
Determinism vs free choice
Free choice
Pessimism vs optimism
Optimism
Causality vs Teleology
Teleology
Uniqueness vs Similarities in people
Uniqueness
