REVISITING ANXIETY IN ROLLO MAY’S WORK: DIALOGUES WITH CLINICAL PHENOMENOLOGY : DIÁLOGOS COM A FENOMENOLOGIA CLÍNICA

In contemporary times, discussions about anxiety distance it from its existential connotation, highlighting its morbid character as a symptom or mental disorder. Rollo May, an American psychologist, in the mid twentieth century points to the need to broaden this view by proposing existential psychot...

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Autores: Souza, Camila, Wurlitzer, Bruno Rubel, Moreira, Virginia
Formato: artículo
Estado:Versión publicada
Fecha de publicación:2021
País:Brasil
Recursos:Pontifícia Universidade Católica de Minas Gerais (PUC Minas)
Repositorio:Psicologia em Revista (Online)
Idioma:portugués
OAI Identifier:oai:ojs.periodicos.pucminas.br:article/22080
Acesso em linha:https://periodicos.pucminas.br/psicologiaemrevista/article/view/22080
Access Level:acceso abierto
Palavra-chave:anxiety
existential psychology
clinical phenomenology
intersubjectivity
ansiedade
psicologia existencial
fenomenologia clínica
intersubjetividade
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Resumo:In contemporary times, discussions about anxiety distance it from its existential connotation, highlighting its morbid character as a symptom or mental disorder. Rollo May, an American psychologist, in the mid twentieth century points to the need to broaden this view by proposing existential psychotherapy. In this article, we carry out theoretical research aiming to investigate anxiety in the writings of this author, in dialogue with a clinical phenomenology of ambiguity. For clinical phenomenology, anxiety is part of a fundamental affective disposition that lies at the base of existence and its pathological expression reveals the impairment in intersubjective subject /world contact. Rollo May approaches this view, relating anxiety with freedom and becoming, but distances itself from clinical phenomenology by referencing an encapsulated subjectivity.