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Psychoanalytic Social Theory

Overview:


- Social and cultural conditions, especially childhood experiences shapes behavior


- " Everyone is a real potential competitor for everyone else"


- A difficult childhood is responsible for neurotic needs


- Man is ruled by SAFETY AND SATISFACTION




Basic Hostility

- happens when a parents did not satisfy the child's need for safety and satisfaction


- Children seldom express overtly express their hostility or rage instead they repressed it and have no awareness of it

Basic Anxiety

- feelings of isolation and helplessness In a world conceived as potentially hostile


- A feelings of being small, insignificant, helpless, deserted, endangered, in a world that is out to abuse, cheat, attack, humiliate and envy


- Not a neurosis


- Constant and unrelenting, leads to unhealthy ways of trying to cope with people


Protective Devices

- To protect themselves against feelings of being alone in a potential hostile world



A. Affection


B. Submissiveness


C. Power, prestige, Possession


D. Withdrawal

A. Affection

- Does not always lead to authentic love


- purchase love, with self effacing compliance, materials, goods or sexual favors

B. Submissiveness

- Submit themselves to either people or organizations


C. 3P's

- Power (Dominate Others)


- Prestige (humiliate Others)


- Possession ( Deprive others)


D. Withdrawal

- Develop Independence from others or becoming emotionally detached from them

Compulsive Drives

- neurotics compulsively repeat the same strategy in the same unproductive manner


- neurotics cannot change their behavior by free will but must continually and compulsively protect themselves against basic anxiety

Neurotic Trends

A. Moving Against People


B. Moving Towards People


C. Moving Away from People

A. Moving Against People (Aggressive)

- Appears tough or ruthless


- Expansive Solutions


- Manipulates and Exploit others


- Assumptions that EVERYONE IS HOSTILE



NEUROTIC NEEDS:


- Power


- Exploitation


- Prestige / Social Recognition


- Admiration


- Ambition and Achievement

B. Moving Towards People (Passive)

- Protect oneself against feeling of helplessness


- Self Effacing solution


- Helpful and compliant


- EVERYONE IS NICE



NEUROTIC NEED:


- Affection and approval


- Powerful partner


- Narrow limits of life

C. Moving Away from people (Withdrawn)

- Resignation and solution


- Arrogant and aloof


- Independent and rebellious



Neurotic Needs:


- Self sufficiency and Independence


- Perfection and Unssailability


Intraphysics Conflict

A. Idealized Self Image


B. Self Hatred

A. Idealized Self Image

- An extravagantly positive view of self that exist only in their personal belief system.



Types


1.) Neurotic Search for glory


2.) Neurotic Claims


3.) Neurotic Pride

1.) The neurotic Search for glory

- a comprehensive drive towards actualizing the idealized self



Need for Perfection- "tyranny of should". Allows only Perfection


Need for Ambition - A compulsive drive towards superiority


Drive Towards a vindictive triumph - The chief aim is to put others to shame or defeat the through ones success



2.) The NEUROTIC claims

- tendency to build a fantasy world. "Something is wrong with the outside world". No remorse

3.) Neurotic Pride

- A false pride based on spurious image of the idealized self

B. Self Hatred

- Hates and despise themselves



Types



1.) Relentless Demands of self - Put themselves to Perfection


2.) Merciless Self-accusation - Constantly berate themselves


3.) Self Contempt - Ridiculing of the self


4.) Self frustration - Shacked by taboos against enjoyment


5.) Self torment/Self torture - Inflict damage or harm on themselves


6.) Self destructive actions / impulses - Attack themselves

Feminine Psychology

- Psychic differences between male and female are not caused by anatomy but rather of cultural and social expectations


- Oedipus Complex was due to certain environmental conditions


- Womb Envy - boys desire to have a baby


- Masculine Protest will lead to neurosis


Psychotherapy

Aim: To gradually grow in the direction of self actualization


By: - giving up their idealized self image


- relinquish their neurotic Search for glory


- change self hatred to an acceptance of the real self