PSYC 331 Lecture Notes - Lecture 14: Dasein, Umwelt, Existentialism
Document Summary
Is not given once and for all; it does not unfold automatically. The mayor applications of existentialism to personality & psychotherapy have come from the work of people trained in classical psychoanalysis. Existential-analytic perspective- is an integration of the freudian & existentialist positons. It is the world that includes biological needs, drives, & instincts a world that would still exist if we had no self-consciousness: mitwelt- interrelationships. It includes the meaning of things that we share with others. Thus love can never be totally understood by focusing only on its connections with the biological world of lust and sex. It also depends upon such mitwelt factors a personal decision and commitment to the other person: eigenwelt- our own world, it is the self in relation to itself. Involves self-awareness & self-relatedness, it occurs when i become aware of the impact that another person has on me or aware of what a flower mean to me.
