Lecture 4- 2/3/09

Psychology 338 with Atwood at Rutgers University - New Brunswick/Piscataway

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By: Isabel Advis
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Faces in a Cloud: Intersubjectivity in Personality Theory

Fantasies of Flight

Introductory Lectures on Psychoanalysis

Memories, Dreams, Reflections
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the invariant consists of 3 elements:
(3 answers)

Contempt (side of mouth curls a bit) object is bad
Smile (false) ? making nice
Self-bite (biting down on lower lip) ? I hate myself, depression

?Personology? ?
(2 answers)

coined by Henry A. Murray (Harvard Clinic, 1938-1960) This is an intellectual counterpart to psychoanalysis, NOT A THERAPY METHOD
Vanished as Murray became older; was able to reappear on Livingston

Stolorow, Ogilvie, Carlson
(1 answer)

a "critical mass" of scholars sharing a vision and commitment but with Tomkins, Atwood, Rosenberg, Haveland-Jones divergent backgrounds

Scripts and Nuclear scene ?
(1 answer)

Tomkins; liked to think of personality as a play being staged

Silvan Tompkins
(6 answers)

PhD in philosophy ?the barn of knowledge? yet only published the smallest part of his life?s work. Suffered from terrible depression.
Was instrumental in bringing back personology to University Rutgers
Tomkins said that if the 4 of them had a few more people, they could create a ?critical mass? ? something comparative to nuclear fission happens when you find intellectuals who share a common vision but bring diverse backgrounds a critical mass can be achieved and an explosion of ideas will come out of it
Stolorow, Ogilvie, Carlson
These guys gave each other courage to think and be creative.
Particular themes in focus:

Invariant organizing principle, recurrent life themes ?
(4 answers)

Atwood and Stolorow; pattern is invariant and recurs over time
World design ? Biswanger (unique experiences in a person's life)
Style of life ? Adler (a melody, a recurring melody in a symphony) Personal constructs - Kelly
1973 ? Tomkins teaching seminar on facial affect patterns Identifying patterns and looking at their imbeddedness in the person?s life history

Tomkins had never met her or seen her at all ? insisted that the volume be turned off when watching the video ? ?I see the invariant?
(1 answer)

the invariant consists of 3 elements:

Resurrecting the personology approach
(3 answers)

all issues to be studied in context of exploring individual lives, personal worlds, histories in depth, life span studies
mutual investigators using different methods
collaborative integration of findings

The Golden Years of Personality at Livingston 1972-1979
(1 answer)

Resurrecting the personology approach

These guys gave each other courage to think and be creative.
(3 answers)

collaborative personological studies ? Atwood interested in messianic salvation fantasies (people who feel they are the messiah); Ogilvie in ascension fantasies
utterly non-critical, affirming, supportive atmosphere ? free to say anything, everything said was brilliant, feedback empowered each other to continue on
relentless mutual and self analysis ? the investigators were equally the subject matter of investigation; analyzed each other constantly but in a positive way

Pre-reflective,
(1 answer)

something you are not aware of, its not natural to be aware of it, it?s natural to exist. Never reflected on the patterning aspect that is always playing/replaying. Everyone comes from a particular history, part of finiteness, there is going to be a mark of that history upon us. In your story you are looking for the Golden thread of your ?youngness?.

Rorschach -
(3 answers)

It?s a bat, there?s a bug in the middle, it?s a bug inside the bat ? felt the need to integrate the two
Rocket ship caught in the cavern trying to blast its way out but will not make it
Glop creatures being generated out of the glop but they are going to be reabsorbed into the glop at the top

Unity themas
(1 answer)

Murray; thematic apperception test (story from a picture), study the little stories for some kind of pattern and extract the underlying story, that story gives a clue to the history of the individual

Particular themes in focus:
(3 answers)

Authoritarianism-
Dogmatism-
Prejudice Flight-