Personality Theories-pp. 380-404-May性格心理学之16.docVIP

Personality Theories-8th Edition Chapter 14- Existential Psychoanalysis -existentialism and psychoanalysis grew out of the same cultural situation -both seek to understand anxiety, despair and the alienation -problem went deeper than neurotic repression -Kierkegaard, Nietzsche and other forerunners of the existentialist position believed that forces of disintegration were gradually destroying individuals’ inner emotional and spiritual life-producing despair and alienation from self and society -May brings together psychoanalytic tradition in psych and the existentialist movement in philoso