Psychoanalytic Social Psychology

Question 1

an insidiously increasing, all-pervading feeling of being lonely and helpless in a hostile world, results from feelings of insecurity in these relations

Answer 1

Basic anxiety

Question 2

the environment as a whole is dreaded because it is seen as unrealistic, dangerous, unappreciative, and unfair

Answer 2

Concept of Basic Anxiety

Question 3

the negative factors in the environment that can provoke insecurity in a child

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Basic evil

Question 4

Such behaviors undermine a child’s security and cause feelings of b__ h__, which must be repressed for fear of losing the parent’s love

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basic hostility

Question 5

the result of the formative experiences that create basic anxiety

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Neurotic needs

Question 6

three types of coping strategies or primary modes of relating to other people:

Mt Mag Maw

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• Moving toward (compliance)
• Moving against (hostility)
• Moving away (detachment)

Question 7

compliance

Answer 7

moving toward

Question 8

hostility

Answer 8

moving against

Question 9

detachment

Answer 9

moving away

Question 10

three basic orientations toward life: SefS SexS RS

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Self-effacing Solution
Self-expansive Solution
Resignation Solution

Question 11

represents what we are — those things that are true about us

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Real self

Question 12

represents what we think we should be

Answer 12

Idealized self

Question 13

a person may completely abandon the real self for the sake of the idealized self

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Alienation

Question 14

Horney suggests that neurotics are governed by the TOTS. Instead of meeting genuine needs, those individuals create false ones

Answer 14

Tyranny of the should

Question 15

Counter part of penis envy according to Karen Horney

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Womb envy

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can assist normal personality development. Significant gains may be made in self-understanding and in reaching freedom from inner restraints that hinder the development of one’s best potentialities.

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Self-analysis

Question 17

A lay analyst

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Erich Fromm

Question 18

It is a basic human condition that posits a “psychological problem” according to Fromm

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Freedom

Question 19

How will human beings respond to the “psychological problem” posed by freedom?

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According to Fromm:
They can work with one another in a spirit of love to create a society that will optimally fulfill their needs,

or

they can “escape from the burden” of freedom into “new dependencies and submission.

Question 20

Three Common Mechanisms of Escape from freedom: ADAc

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Authoritarianism
Destructiveness
Automaton conformity

Question 21

offers escape from the problem of freedom through submitting to a new form of domination

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Authoritarianism

Question 22

offers escape from the problem of freedom through the elimination of others and/or the outside world

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Destructiveness

Question 23

the majority of individuals seek to escape the problem of freedom through this process. They cease to be themselves and adopt the type of personality preferred by the culture in which they live.

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Automaton conformity

Question 24

relating to other people and living productively

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Relatedness

Question 25

rising above the animal level of creature-likeness and becoming active creators

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Transcendence

Question 26

feeling that we belong

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Rootedness

Question 27

becoming aware of ourselves as separate and unique individuals

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Sense of identity

Question 28

having a stable and consistent frame of reference to organize perceptions and make sense of our environment: FoO a OoD

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Frame of orientation and object of Devotion

Question 29

Actively striving for a goal rather than simply responding

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Excitation and stimulation

Question 30

r___ personalities believe that the only way they can obtain something they want is to receive it from an outside source; they react passively, waiting to be loved

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Receptive

Question 31

take the things they want by force or cunning; they exploit others for their own ends

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Exploitative

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h___ personalities hoard and save what they already have; they surround themselves with a wall and are miserly in their relations to others

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Hoarding

Question 33

m___ personalities experience themselves as commodities on the market; they may be described as opportunistic chameleons, changing their colors and values as they perceive the forces of the market to change

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Marketing

Question 34

value themselves and others for who they are; they relate to the world by accurately perceiving it and by enriching it through their own creative powers

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Productive

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orientations that seek to live life

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biophilous character

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attracted to what is dead and decaying and seeks to destroy life

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necrophilous character

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relies on the possessions that a person has, is the source of lust for power and leads to isolation and fear.

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The Having mode

Question 38

depends solely on the fact of existence, is the source of productive love and activity leads to solidarity and joy.

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The Being mode

Question 39

an appeal to be loved

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Self-effacing solution

Question 40

an attempt at mastery

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Self-expansive solution

Question 41

a desire to be free of others

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Resignation solution