PSYC18H3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Danger Signal, Intellectualization, Reaction Formation
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Three groups of emotions: relational emotions: point to something outside the self (e. g. love, hate, theory of ambivalence: virtually every relationship will have been accompanied by both pleasure and pain, family plays a crucial role here. The kinds of emotions that become differentiated depends on the dynamics of the family: complementarity: there"s no happiness without concepts of sadness. Fear is a later development than anxiety as fear is about something in particular while anxiety can be about something we are not sure of or do not know of. Oriented to reality requirements of the (failure to accept the world is changing) present situation. Involves larger component of secondary process thinking and partakes of conscious and preconscious elements. We need to adapt to the world around us and yet it can be threatening. Freud"s point: coping defences can push emotions away but it will always be there in your unconscious.
