Lesson 11 - Rollo May

Question 1

This has roots in the writings of Søren Kierkegaard, concerned with both the experiencing person and the person’s experience

Answer 1

Modern existential psychology

Question 2

(process) takes precedence over essence (product)

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Existence

Question 3

oppose the artificial split between subject and object. Stresses people’s search for meaning in their lives.

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Existentialist

Question 4

Takes an antitheoretical position, believing that theories tend to objectify people.

Answer 4

Existentialism

Question 5

the basic unity of person and environment

Answer 5

Being in the world (dasein)

Question 6

environment around us

Answer 6

Umwelt

Question 7

relations with other people

Answer 7

Mitwelt

Question 8

Toward self

Answer 8

Eigenwelt

Question 9

Healthy people live in _______,________and___________ simultaneously

Answer 9

Umwelt, Mitwelt, and Eigenwelt

Question 10

awareness of the possibility of one’s not being, through death or loss of awareness

Answer 10

Nonbeing or nothingness

Question 11

People experience this when they become aware that their existence or some value identified with it might be destroyed.

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Anxiety

Question 12

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

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Normal Anxiety

Question 13

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.

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Neurotic Anxiety

Question 14

Blocks growth and productive action

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Dogma

Question 15

This arises when people denied their potentialities

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Guilt

Question 16

This arises when a person fail to accurately perceive the needs of others

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Guilt

Question 17

This arises when a person remain blind to their dependence on the natural world.

Answer 17

Guilt

Question 18

Both anxiety and guilt are?

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ontological

Question 19

that is, they refer to the nature of being and not to feelings arising from specific situations

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Ontological

Question 20

Delight in the presence of the other person and an affirming of [that person’s] value and development as much as one’s own.

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Love

Question 21

Action and intentionalities are?

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Inseparable

Question 22

the capacity to organize one’s self so that movement in a certain direction or toward a certain goal may take place.

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Will

Question 23

Without this there can be no love, only empty sentimentality or transient sexual arousal. This is also the source of will.

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Care

Question 24

Psychologically healthy people are able to combine this because both imply care, choice, action, and responsibility.

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love and will

Question 25

satisfied through sexual intercourse or some other release of sexual tension (physiological need)

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Sex

Question 26

psychological desire that seeks procreation or creation through an enduring union with a loved one, built on the foundation of philia

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Eros

Question 27

intimate nonsexual friendship between two people, takes time to grow, to develop, to sink its roots

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Philia

Question 28

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

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Agape

Question 29

blend all four forms of love

Answer 29

Healthy Adult Relationship

Question 30

individual’s capacity to know that he is the determined one

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Freedom

Question 31

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.

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Destiny

Question 32

freedom of doing or freedom of action

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Existential Freedom

Question 33

freedom of being or an inner freedom

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Essential Freedom

Question 34

seems to allow people to face their destiny and to gain their freedom of being

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Physical confinement or the denial of liberty

Question 35

are belief systems, both conscious and unconscious, that provide explanations for personal and social problems.

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Cultural Myths

Question 36

Determinism vs free choice

Answer 36

Free choice

Question 37

Pessimism vs optimism

Answer 37

Optimism

Question 38

Causality vs Teleology

Answer 38

Teleology

Question 39

Uniqueness vs Similarities in people

Answer 39

Uniqueness