Theories Of Personality May

The founder of modern existentialism

Meaning of existence takes precedence over essence

To emerge or to become; suggests process; associated with growth and change

Static immutable substance; signifies stagnation and finality

Basic unity of a person and their environment; being-in-the-world

The illness of our time; separation from nature

World of objects and things and would exist even if people had no awareness

Includes biological drives such as hunger, sleep and natural phenomena (birth and death)

Our world and relations with other people

Relationship with oneself or awareness of oneself as human being

Ilustrated his notion of existentialism through this study

Subjective state of the individuals becoming aware that his/her existence can be destroyed and that he could become nothing

Also called the dizziness of freedom

Anxiety: is proportionate to the threat, does not involve repression, and can be handled on a conscious level

Anxiety: disprportionate to the threat and that leads to repression and defensive behaviors

Arises whenever people deny their potentialities, fail to accurately perceive the needs of others, or remain blind to their dependence on the natural world

ontological means…

Alienation or blinded sa advancement sa society esp technology na maseparate sa nature

Same with Fromm’s concept of human dilemma

Inability to perceive accurately the world of others

Denial of our own potentialities or with failure to fulfill them; same with Maslow’s Jonah complex

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

Overcome the dichotomy between subject and object

Coexist with intentionality (inseparable factor)

Is an active process that suggests that things matter; opposite of apathy

Source of love and will

Delight in the presence of the other person and an affirming of that person's value and development as much as one's own

Capacity to organize one's self so that movement in a certain direction or toward a certain goal may take place; different with wish

A vague sense of mental or moral ill-being

Forms of love

Biological function that can be satisfied through sexual intercourse or some other release of sexual tension

Psychological desire that seeks procreation or creation through an enduring union with a loved one

Intimate non-sexual friendship between 2 people

Altruistic love and spiritual love; unconditional love

When we recognize that death is a possibility at any moment and when we are willing to experience changes, even in the face of not knowing what those changes will bring

Forms of freedom

Freedom of action or doing

Freedom of being

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

Freedom and ____ are intertwined; one cannot exist without the other

Conscious and unconscious belief systems that provide explanations for personal and social problems; akin to Jung's collective unconscious

The chief existential disorders of our time

The goal of May's therapy

People distance themselves from animals because animals remind them of their own physical bodies and death

Awareness of mortality causes us to reprioritize our goals in life