PSYCH 3AB3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Viktor Frankl, Erich Fromm, The Good Life
25 Jan 2020
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It is nothing more than the scientific study of ordinary human strengths and virtues. Positive psychology revisits the average person," with an interest in finding out what works, what is right, and what is improving positive psychology is simply psychology. Positive psychology is about scientifically informed perspective on what makes life worth living. It focuses on aspects of the human condition that lead to happiness, fulfillment, and flourishing . The middle ages: the good life = living god"s will, world = a trial before the glory of afterlife, happiness in this life unimportant. The renaissance: rediscovery of greek thinkers, renewed focus on happiness in this world. Freud: our motivation is to seek pleasure, mental health is the ability to work and to love. Life is a struggle between desires and real-world and moral constraints. Jung: our highest motivation is to realize the archetype of the self in our own personality, one symbol of the self is the mandala.
