May: Existential Psychology

Question 1

is the world of objects and things would exist even if people had no awareness.

Answer 1

Umwelt

Question 2

implies a static immutable substance

Answer 2

Essence

Question 3

A reaction which is disproportionate to the threat, involves repression and other intrapsychic conflict, and is managed by various kinds of blocking off of activity and awareness.

Answer 3

Neurotic Anxiety

Question 4

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

Answer 4

Will

Question 5

2 forms of freedom

Answer 5

Existential Freedom
Essential Freedom

Question 6

is a biological function that can be satisfied through sexual intercourse or some other release of sexual tension

Answer 6

Sex

Question 7

2 forms of Anxiety

Answer 7

Normal Anxiety
Neurotic Anxiety

Question 8

A phenomenological approach to understanding humanity

Answer 8

Being in the world/Dasein

Question 9

is an active process, the opposite of apathy, is a state in which something does matter

Answer 9

Care

Question 10

they are conscious and unconscious belief systems that provide explanations for personal and social problems

Answer 10

Myths

Question 11

we also lived in the world with people

Answer 11

Mitwelt

Question 12

two basic concept of existentialism

Answer 12

Being in the world
Nonbeing

Question 13

It is the freedom of action —- the freedom of doing

Answer 13

Existential Freedom

Question 14

refers to one’s relationship with oneself

Answer 14

Eigenwelt

Question 15

the design of the universe speaking through the design of each one of us

Answer 15

Destiny

Question 16

4 forms of love

Answer 16

Sex
Eros
Philia
Agape

Question 17

May defined as esteem for the other, the concern for the others welfare beyond any gain that one can get out of it; disinterested love, typically, the love of god for man.

Answer 17

Agape

Question 18

leads to the dread of not being or nothingness

Answer 18

Nonbeing

Question 19

three simultaneous modes people experience in their being in the world

Answer 19

Umwelt
Mitwelt
Eigenwelt

Question 20

An intimate nonsexual friendship between two people

Answer 20

Philia

Question 21

rises when people deny their potentialities, fail to accurately perceive the needs of fellow humans, or remain oblivious to their dependence on the natural world.

Answer 21

Guilt

Question 22

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

Answer 22

Love

Question 23

people experience___________ when they become aware that their existence or some value identified with it might be destroyed

Answer 23

Anxiety

Question 24

the individuals capacity to know that he is the determined one

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Freedom

Question 25

to emerge or to become

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Existence

Question 26

the ability to make a choice implies some underlying structure upon which that choice is made, the structure that gives meaning to to experience and allows people to make decisions about the future

Answer 26

Intentionality

Question 27

is a psychological desire that seeks procreation or creation through an enduring union with a loved one.

Answer 27

Eros

Question 28

to grow and to change one’s values means to experience constructive

Answer 28

Normal Anxiety

Question 29

German word, meaning “to exist there”

Answer 29

Dasein

Question 30

Freedom of being or the inner freedom

Answer 30

Essential Freedom