May: Existential Psychology Flashcards
Means to exist in the world; basic unity of person and the environment
Daesin
3 simultaneous modes in people’s being-in-the-world
Unwelt
Mitwelt
Eigenwelt
The environment around us.
Unwelt
Our relations with other people.
Mitwelt
Our relationship with our self.
Eigenwelt
Leads to the dread of not being.
Nonbeing/Nothingness
The subjective state of the individual’s becoming aware that their existence can be destroyed, that they can become nothing.
Anxiety
Defined as that which is proportionate to the threat, does not involve repression, and can be confronted constructively on the conscious level.
Normal anxiety
A reaction which is disproportionate to the threat, involves repression and other forms of intrapsychic conflict, and is managed by various kind of blocking-off of activity and awareness.
Neurotic anxiety
Arises when people deny their potentialities, fail to accurately perceive the needs of fellow humans, or remain oblivious to their dependence the natural world.
Guilt
The structure that gives meaning to experience and allows people to make decision about the future.
Intentionality
The structure that gives meaning to experience and allows people yo make decisions about the future.
Intentionality
A delight in the presence of the other person and an affirming of value and development as much as one’s own.
Love
A state in which something does matter.
Care
The capacity to organize one’s self so that movement in a certain direction or toward a certain goal may take place.
Will
Forms of love.
Sex
Eros
Philia
Agape
A biological function that can be satisfied through sexual intercourse or some other release of sexual tension.
Sex
A psychological desire that seeks procreation or creation through an enduring union with a loved one.
Eros
An intimate nonsexual friendship between two people.
Philia
Esteem for other, the concern for other’s welfare beyond any gain that one can get out of it, disinterested love, typically the love of God for man.
Agape
The freedom of action; the freedom of doing.
Existential freedom
Fredom of being.
Essential freedom
The design of the universe speaking through the design of each one of us.
Destiny
