101679 Lecture 5: Week 5 Lecture

• School: UWS
• Department: University of Western Sydney
• Course: 101679
• Professor: Glenn Newbery

Document Summary

The neo-freudians: erikson and fromm - towards a focus on object relations and culture. Inhibition s characterised by a suppression of both the envisioning and the pursuit of valued goals: ego strength: competence (and industry, antipathy: inertia. It is not clear whether erikson"s account of the ego strengths is objective, or merely a reflection of values. In the realm of love and affection, they feel attracted to people who they can take away from someone else. By being swallowed by the other person: this is the masochistic, passive form of symbiotic relatedness. By swallowing the other person: this is the sadistic, active form of symbiotic relatedness, withdrawal-destructiveness. Withdrawal: an attempt to overcome the feeling of individual powerlessness by withdrawal from others who are experienced as threats, the emotional equivalent is the feeling of indifference toward others, often accompanied by a compensatory feeling of self-inflation.