Attila Oláh

Anxiety, Coping, and Flow

Empirical studies in interactional perspective

Freud’s Anxiety Concept Between 1916 and 1925

It was the pope of psychoanalysis, who has offered the most comprehensive analysis for the science of psychology about the nature of anxiety until now. Freud was struggling with the puzzle of anxiety for 50 years, and his legacy of thought became the basic pillar of most anxiety theories nowadays, beside the psychophysiological models. He tried to clear the concept of anxiety and related phenomena in 1916 in his Lecture 25, explaining that the notion of anxiety serves to describe a distressed state: “I will only say that I think ‘Angst’ (anxiety) relates to the state and disregards the object, while ‘Furcht’ (fear) draws attention precisely to the object” (p. 443). The cause of fear concerning its object is always concrete, while that of anxiety is uncertain. “It seems that ‘Schreck’ (fright), on the other hand, does have a special sense, it lays emphasis, that is, on the effect produced by a danger which is not met by any preparedness for anxiety. We might say, therefore, that a person protects himself from fright by anxiety” (p. 443).

Tartalomjegyzék

Kiadó: Akadémiai Kiadó

Online megjelenés éve: 2021

ISBN: 978 963 454 707 5

Pszichológia

This volume follows a decade of empirical research on how we can cope with the negative effects of life including our own negative emotions and feelings of incompetence, and how we can mobilize consciously – always remaining in reality – what environmental and inner personal sources to change our stressful world into a place enriching our self and development with optimal experiences.

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