PSY 393 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Otto Binswanger, Rollo May, Dasein
23 Mar 2017
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Kierkegaard: rejected attempts to understand reality via abstract logic and reasoning, relational truth: all truth relative to the individual perceiving, angst results from knowledge and awareness. Existence is the focus of this philosophy. Concerned with meaning generation when confronted by: our isolation, our uniqueness, an infinitely vast and unknowable universe. An area of philosophy concerned with the meaning of human existence. Being in the world: must examine human beings in their world, the self cannot exist without the world. Existentialism adopted: to increase sense of, meaning, responsibility, to decrease apathy, holistic approach (focus on the total person, ontological (=meaning) orientation. Human dilemma: reflects the conflict between, the self as a subject with free will, the self as an object controlled by powerful external forces. Innate need to: actively exist in our world, develop sense of self, as autonomous, as distinct, development occurs at bost unconscious and conscious levels, the stronger this sense of dasein, the healthier the personality.
