Professional Documents
Culture Documents
- gentle
- pretentious
Human Needs o To kill for reasons other than survival
(Existential Needs) Rootedness
- Can move people toward a reunion with the - The need to establish roots or to feel at home
natural world again in the world.
- Emerged during the evolution of human culture, - May cause unbearable isolation and
growing out of their attempts to find an answer helplessness.
to their existence and to avoid becoming
- Productive strategy
insane.
o Being weaned from their mother and
- Healthy people find answers to their existence
actively and creatively relating to the
Relatedness world and becoming whole and
integrated.
- The drive for union with another person or
other persons. - nonProductive strategy
- SUBMISSION o (fixation)
o Transcending the separateness of ones o Reluctance to move beyond the
individual existence by becoming part protective security provided by ones
of somebody or something bigger than mother
oneself and experiences ones identity
- Incestuous Desires/Feelings
in connection with the power to which
one has submitted. o Universal but not essentially sexual and
are based in the deep-seated craving
- POWER
to remain in or to return to the all-
o Searching for a relationship with enveloping womb or to the all-
domineering people nourishing breasts.
o Characteristics: Proud
o Positive freedom
Psychotherapy
Aim of therapy: Patients to come to know
themselves
Without knowledge of ourselves, we cannot
know any other person or thing
Patients come to therapy seeking satisfaction of
their basic human needs
Free association
Dream analysis