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Unit 3 - 888
Unit 3 - 888
Unit 3 - 888
Bahala Na (Determination)
B. Sociopolitical Problems
1. SIKOLOHIYA SA PILIPINAS
More than thirty years ago, Virgilio G. Enriquez
2. SIKOLOHIYA NG MGA PILIPINO
published one of his most important works to date and
3. SIKOLOHIYANG PILIPINO
its message was clear: Psychology, as studied and
practiced in the Philippines, needed to be reoriented so
Filipinos could understand their own behavior using
SIKOLOHIYA SA PILIPINAS
their own perspective. Enriquez brought to fore
Sikolohiyang Pilipino’s (SP) dual nature—it is both an
Tumutukoy ito sa mga kaganapan sa
indigenous psychology and a movement.
sikolohiya ng ating bansa.
Halimbawa:Gaano ba karami ang pag-aaral na
Language
ginawa tungkol sa sikolohiyang pilipino?
Ito ang pinaka malaki o kabuuang anyong
❖ In 1970 during the U.P. Psychology faculty
sikolohiya sa kontextong pilipino
meeting Lagmay asked the staff who would
like to teach psychology in Filipino.
Philippine independence in 1946, with the inauguration ● Psychology of language and culture
of the Bell Trade Act of 1946, also known as the ● Applications and bases in fields like health
Filipino Psychologists
include the other.
● Enriquez (1978) defined kapwa as “the unity of the
self and others, a recognition of
shared identity, an inner self shared with others.”
● Enriquez proposed a new rendition of the word
kapwa that bears its profound and
powerful meaning: shared inner self.
● The ako (ego) and the iba-sa-akin (others) are one
and the same in kapwa psychology.
● ” Once ako starts thinking of himself as different from
kapwa, the self, in effect, denies
the status of kapwa to the other (Enriquez, 1978).
PAKIKISAMA “companionship”
3. Covar’s concept of Filipino personhood is based - It ended in 1898 but was also the beginning of
on: American occupation.
4 ELEMENTS: - In 1941 was the start of the Japanese occupation.
❖ Kaluluwa (spirit) - life’s source - 1946 is when the Philippines finally gained
❖ Budhi (conscience) - guides a person in his actions independence.
and judges the life he ● Indio - A Spanish colonial racial term used on the
leads native people of the Philippines during
❖ Katauhang Panlabas (external appearance) - refers the 16th and 19th centuries.
to the physical -
characteristics associated with body parts and its It referred to as “poor people of our country who could
related meanings be slaves and peasants
❖ Katauhang Panloob / Loob (innermost being) - only.”
refers to the innermost ● Filipino Identity and Self-image
feeling of an individual - Due to colonialism, racial superiority and inferiority
have become evident and
have resulted in uneven power relations. colonization
has hindered Filipinos from
developing a genuine cultural identity by
institutionalizing whiteness in the Filipino
culture.
- Whiteness, a discursive practice that reinforces the
OTHER FILIPINO CONCEPTS OF LOOB symbolical association of a
CONCEPT white skin tone with superiority.
DEFINITION ● Rizal’s Annotation of Sucesos de las Islas
IPAGKALOOB TO ENTRUST Filipinas
LAGAY NG LOOB MOOD, STATE OF MIND / - Rizal had definite views about the problems of what
FEELING we would call today
TINING NG LOOB CLARITY OF THINKING & "Orientalist" images of Filipino society held by colonial-
FEELING era scholars.
KABABAANG LOOB HUMILITY - This comes across very clearly in his annotation and
KUSANG LOOB INITIATIVE republication of Antonio de
KAPALAGAYANG LOOB CONFIDANT Morga's Sucesos de las Islas Filipinas (Historical
MASAMA ANG LOOB ANGRY, HOLDING A Events of the Philippine
GRUDGE Islands), a work that first appeared in 1609 and created
MASAMANG LOOB CROOK by De Morga.
MAHINA ANG LOOB COWARD - Rizal's objective in annotating and republishing this
LABAG SA KALOOBAN UNWILLING work was to correct what he
MALUWAG SA KALOOBAN WILLING understood to be erroneous reports and slanderous
KABUTIHANG LOOB GOOD NATUREDNESS statements that could be found in most Spanish works
on the Philippines.
- He also wanted to recover the pre-colonial past that
Topic 2. Indigenous Identity vs. the Colonial Image was erased from the
of the Filipino memory of Filipinos by colonization.
BAHALA NA
● "whatever happens, happens,"
● is a Filipino attitude that expresses courage and faith
in God.
● The word bahala is actually a derivative of the word
Bathala
● bahala na is the attitude of a risk-taker, of the
unreasonable man
Bahala Na as Positive or Negative Trait
Positive