MAY Flashcards
Existential Psychology was rooted in the philosophy of
Kierkegaard
Nietzsche
Heidegger
Sartre
Rollo May’s existential psychology saw people that
Living in the world of present experiences and ultimately being responsible for who they became
Kierkegaard opposed
any attempt to see people as objects
And view that subjective perceptions are one’s only reality
Existentialist emphasized the balance between
Freedom and responsibility
When they Realize that people are incharge of their own destiny they experience
Burden of freedom and pain of responsibility
Elements of existential thinkers
Existence over essence
Opposes Split between subjective and objective
People searxh fir the meaning of their life
Each of us is responsible for who we are and become
Antitheoretical
Two concepts of existentialism
Being in the world
Nonbeing
Basic unity of the world and the environment
Awareness of self as living and emerging being
Dasein/being in the world
Three manifestation of alienation or the illness ofnour time
Separation from nature
Lack of meaningful interpersonal relationship
Alienation from one’s authentic self
Modes of being in the world
Umwelt
Mitwelt
Eigenwelt
relationship with the environment
Umwelt
Relationship with other people
Mitwelt
Relarionship with self
Eigenwelt
Dread of non being or nothingness
Non being
Most obvious avenue of non being
Death
Non being can also be expressed thru
Blind conformity to society
Generalized hostility that pervades relationship with others
Concerned with the individuals struggle to work through life’s experiences and to grow toward becoming more fully human
Existential psychology
People experience anxiety when
They become aware that thei existence or some value identified with it might be destroeyd
Threat to some important value
The subjective state of the individuals becoming aware that his existence can be destroyed that he can become nothing
Anxiety
Exist when one confronts the issue of fulfilling one’s potentiality which leads to stagnation and decay nut can also result to growth and change
Anxiety
Acquisitin pf freedom can kead to
Anxiety and likewise
Anxiety can be either
Neurotic
Normal
proportionate to the threat, does not involve repression an can be confronted constructively on the conscious level
To grow and change one’s value
Threat to one’s value
Normal anxiety
Reaction disproportionate to the threat involves repression and other forms of intrapsychic conflict and managed by various kind of blocking off activity and awareness
when values become transformed into dogma/belief
Neurotic anxiety
