Rollo May Flashcards

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Common elements of existentialism

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  1. Existence takes precedence over essence.
  2. Existentialism opposes the split between subject and object.
  3. People search for some meaning to their lives.
  4. Existentialists hold that ultimately each of us is responsible for who we are and what we become.
  5. Existentialists are basically antitheoretical.
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Dasein means

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Being-in-the-world

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Three simultaneous modes in their being-in-the-world

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Umwelt-around world
Mitwelt-with world
Eigenwelt-own world

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Subjective state of the individual’s becoming aware that his or her existence can be destroyed, that he can become nothing.

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Anxiety

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Types of anxiety

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Normal anxiety
Neurotic anxiety

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Proportionate to the threat.
Does not involve repression.
Can be confronted constructively on the conscious level.

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Normal anxiety

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Disproportionate to the threat.
Involves repression and other forms of intrapsychic conflict.
Managed by various kinds of blocking-off of activity and awareness

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Neurotic anxiety

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It 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

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Guilt

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May identified three forms of ontological guilt, each corresponding to one of the three modes of being-in-the-world

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Umwelt
Mitwelt
Eigenwelt

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(GUILT) It can arise from lack of awareness of one’s being-in-the-world

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Umwelt

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(GUILT) It is the inability to perceive accurately to the world of others.

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Mitwelt

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(GUILT) It is associated with our denial of our own potentialities or with our failure to fulfil them.

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Eigenwelt

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The structure that gives meaning to experience and allows people to make decision about the future.

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Intentionality

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May used the term “intentionality” to bridge that gap between ____ and _____

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Subject and object

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T or F: Intentionality is sometimes unconscious

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True

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To care for someone means to recognize that the person as a _____, to identify with that person’s ____, ____ or ____

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fellow human being
Pain or joy, guilt, or pity

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T or F: Care is not the same as love, but it is the source of love.

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True

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T or F: Care is also the source of the will

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True

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Union of love and will

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For the mature person, both love and will mean a reaching out toward another person.

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Both involve CARE, both necessitate CHOICE, both imply ACTION, both require RESPONSIBILITY

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Union of love and will

21
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Forms of love

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Sex
Eros
Philia
Agape

22
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It is a biological function that can be satisfied through sexual intercourse or some other release of sexual tension.

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

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It is an intimate nonsexual friendship between two people.

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It is the altruistic love
Agape
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Forms of freedom
Existential freedom Essential freedom
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It is the freedom of action- the freedom of doing.
Existential freedom
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It is the individual's capacity to know that he is the determined one.
Freedom
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It is the freedom to act on the choices that one makes.
Existential freedom
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The freedom of being. Inner freedom
Essential freedom
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It is the design of the universe speaking through the design of each one of us.
Destiny
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It is our destination, our terminus goal.
Destiny
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Freedom and destiny are normal paradox of life.
True
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Freedom and destiny are intertwined, one cannot exist without the other.
True
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Freedom and destiny give birth to each other.
True
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Conscious and unconscious belief systems that provide explanations for personal and social problems.
The power of myth
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Stories that unify a society, May believed that people communicate with one another on two levels:
Rationalistic language Thought myths
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Truth takes precedence over the people who are communicating
Rationalistic language
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The total human experience is more important than the empirical accuracy of the communication
Through myths
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May believed that the Oedipus story contains elements of existential crisis common to everyone:
A. Birth B. Separation or exile from parents and home C. Sexual union with one parent and hostility toward the other. D. The assertion of independence and the search for identity E. Death
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May's MYTH-> Carl Jung's _____
Collective unconscious
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Apathy and emptiness are the malaise of modern times
Psychopathology
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May saw psychopathology as _____ of _____
Lack of communication
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Neurotic symptoms do not represent a failure of adjustment, but rather a proper and necessary adjustment by which one's Dasein can be preserved.
Psychopathology
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Purpose of psychotherapy is to
Set people free