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Chapter 11 - May
Chapter 11 - May
Chapter 11
May: Existential Psychology
Learning Objectives
6. Discuss May's concept of myth and explain why the Oedipal myth is
important in today's world.
Summary Outline
Test Items
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True-False
______2. Rollo May had an unpredictable mother and an older sister who
experienced a psychotic breakdown.
_____11. Rollo May believed that love and will should be separate.
_____14. May suggested that healthy relationships blend all four forms of
love.
_____16. Agape is an altruistic love that does not depend on the behavior
of the loved person.
_____17. According to May, anxiety and guilt are the malaise of our time.
_____19. May believed that the Oedipus story lost its power when
psychoanalysts popularized it and thus trivialized it.
Multiple Choice
______9. Our relationship to self and our ability to grasp who we are best
describes ______.
a. Umwelt
b. Mitwelt
c. Eigenwelt
d. nonbeing
c. normal anxiety.
d. neurotic anxiety.
e. destiny.
_____12. The guilt that arises from our inability to accurately perceive the
world of others is associated with ______.
a. Umwelt
b. Mitwelt
c. Eigenwelt
d. neurotic anxiety
e. intentionality
b. peace.
c. unity.
d. individuality.
e. myths.
_____22. In The Cry for Myth, May suggested that one myth is powerful
today because it contains elements of existential crises common
to all of us. This is the story of ______.
a. Oedipus
b. Moses
c. Hercules
d. Job
e. Jonah
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