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What is the primary function of the collective unconscious in relationships?

  • To influence underlying emotions and attractions unknowingly (correct)
  • To create conscious awareness of individual differences
  • To encourage conscious communication between partners
  • To eliminate personal instincts in favor of shared ones

    • Which of the following best describes an archetype?

  • A personal experience unique to each individual
  • A universal symbol that influences behavior and emotions (correct)
  • An external factor that shapes individual identity
  • A learned behavior from personal relationships

    • How can the projections of the anima and animus affect romantic relationships?

  • They remove all conflicts present in the partnership
  • They ensure partners fulfill their roles perfectly
  • They enhance individuality in the relationship
  • They may lead to unrealistic expectations and idealization (correct)

    • What is projection in the context of relationships?

    <p>Attributing personal feelings and desires to the partner</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What tends to happen in relationships dominated by unconscious behaviors?

    <p>Interactions become driven by instinctual and unresolved issues</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What is essential for creating a genuine psychological relationship between partners?

    <p>Mutual recognition as unique individuals</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What is required to nurture conscious relationships?

    <p>Emotional maturity and self-awareness</p> Signup and view all the answers

    Which characteristic distinguishes an instinctual/biological relationship from one based on individuated personalities?

    <p>Reliance on unconscious attraction</p> Signup and view all the answers

    Which of the following describes the concept of the unconscious shadow in relationships?

    <p>Unacknowledged flaws and fears that can cause conflict</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What does Horney suggest about the traditional roles of women in love and marriage?

    <p>They confine women to a narrow sphere</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What is prioritized in relationships of individuated personalities?

    <p>Personal growth and authenticity</p> Signup and view all the answers

    Why might relationships based on projection lead to disappointment?

    <p>Because there is a lack of actual individual compatibility</p> Signup and view all the answers

    How does Horney view the competition among girls for men's attention?

    <p>As an inevitable outcome of traditional roles</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What does emotional awareness entail in a genuine psychological relationship?

    <p>Honest communication and emotional intelligence</p> Signup and view all the answers

    In what way does Jung's concept of marriage emphasize self-awareness?

    <p>By integrating unconscious elements</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What consequence does Horney associate with the overevaluation of love?

    <p>Rivalry among women for men's attention</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What is described as the phenomenological mark of love?

    <p>The acute consciousness of the impossibility of possession</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What do immovable disappointments generate according to the text?

    <p>Deep art and desperate religious belief</p> Signup and view all the answers

    How does the text differentiate between art and religion in terms of belief?

    <p>Religion is deceptive while art is merely illusory</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What does romantic love involve, as described in the text?

    <p>Desiring to create a shared identity known as a 'we'</p> Signup and view all the answers

    In what way does love alter one's identity?

    <p>It leads to the creation of a new identity</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What is the implication of attempting to repeat romantic gestures?

    <p>They fundamentally fail to achieve their metaphysical goal</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What is suggested about 'theater of love' in relation to art and religion?

    <p>It involves the suspension of disbelief and can lead to sacrilege</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What aspect of romantic love is highlighted as being inherently unrepeatable?

    <p>The gestures associated with the experience</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What is the nature of love as described by Diotima?

    <p>A spirit that connects mortals to the divine</p> Signup and view all the answers

    Which two elements are considered the parents of love?

    <p>Poverty and Resource</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What is the ultimate goal of love according to the concept of the Form of Beauty?

    <p>To contemplate the eternal and unchanging ideal</p> Signup and view all the answers

    Which progression describes the Ladder of Love?

    <p>Physical attraction, beauty of all bodies, beauty of the soul, and the Form of Beauty</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What kind of beauty is considered the highest form?

    <p>The Form of Beauty, which is eternal and unchanging</p> Signup and view all the answers

    How does love relate to the concepts of wisdom and eternality?

    <p>Love desires wisdom because it seeks the eternal and the good</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What is the relationship between love and immortality as described?

    <p>Love leads to the desire for spiritual and intellectual legacy</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What does love lack according to its paradoxical nature?

    <p>Wisdom</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What impact does loving someone for their characteristics have in a relationship?

    <p>It leads to conditional love that is easily shaken.</p> Signup and view all the answers

    In the context of romantic love, how is the division of labor described?

    <p>It involves shared interests and selective sharing of experiences.</p> Signup and view all the answers

    According to the concepts discussed, what role does autonomy play in romantic relationships?

    <p>It supports individual identity without compromising the relationship.</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What does Jung suggest about the nature of love and relationships?

    <p>Love serves as a means to heal and accept one's partner.</p> Signup and view all the answers

    Which of the following correctly describes crystallization in the context of romantic love?

    <p>The tendency to see a love object as an embodiment of an ideal.</p> Signup and view all the answers

    Which of the following best describes Nozick's view on romantic love?

    <p>Focus on each partner's autonomous individual growth.</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What does the term 'Anti-Platonic Ideal' refer to?

    <p>The focus on a singular individual and their unique qualities.</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What might prevent individuals who are in love from seeking out alternative partners?

    <p>There is often significant time and energy invested in the relationship.</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What distinguishes Plato's view on love from that of Nozick?

    <p>Plato views love as a mythical union as opposed to Nozick's practical collaboration.</p> Signup and view all the answers

    In what way does 'Transference and Repetition' influence romantic emotions?

    <p>They cause old emotional patterns to resurface in new relationships.</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What does the concept of imprinting in love suggest?

    <p>Characteristics initially draw affection, which evolves into deeper love.</p> Signup and view all the answers

    Which feature describes the 'Theatre of Love' concept?

    <p>A temporary romantic encounter that avoids future commitments.</p> Signup and view all the answers

    How does love excuse certain actions that would normally be unacceptable?

    <p>By framing them as passionate expressions of deep feelings.</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What is a characteristic of promiscuous love as distinguished from promiscuous sex?

    <p>It emphasizes emotional depth over sexual encounters.</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What role does 'idealization' play in romantic love?

    <p>It magnifies perceived virtues of a love object through distortion.</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What does love's ability to justify certain actions reveal about societal norms?

    <p>It indicates that love can serve as a shield against accountability.</p> Signup and view all the answers

    Study Notes

    De Sousa: Love As Theatre

    • Love can justify horrible actions a stranger wouldn't condone
    • Sex is one of the only crimes love can excuse
    • Theatre of Love: a sexual encounter limited to the moment; avoids long-term commitment; modernized version of romantic love
    • Promiscuous love not promiscuous sex

    Problematic Features of Romantic Love

    • Crystallization: the mind turns any encounter into a discovery of perfect characteristics (idealization)
    • Platonic Ideal: idealizing the love object; consummation is impossible/delayed
    • Anti-Platonic Ideal: love is focused on an individual; an equal and opposite frustration
    • Transference and Repetition: emotional patterns repeat from previous experiences; these patterns are difficult to change

    Romantic Love

    • Qualitative experiences are repeatable, but romantic love isn't
    • Repetition of actions associated with unrepeatable experience fails to achieve metaphysical goals
    • The consciousness of the impossibility of possessing the object of love

    Disappointment

    • Deepest art and religious belief come from unfulfilled expectations
    • Religion is deceptive; Art is just an illusion
    • Romantic love can't be simulated; either avoid it or be religious about it

    In What Way is the "Theater of Love" Like Art and Religious Rituals?

    • Killing in the name of religion
    • Beauty, aesthetic...sacrilege
    • Suspension of disbelief

    Nozick

    • Love is desire to form a "we" (a new entity)
    • Love, not requiring the other person to be in love
    • Changes the individual identity into a shared "we"
    • Relationships in love don't automatically negate an individual's identity

    How Does the Division of Labor Work in Romantic Love?

    • Sharing the responsibility for interests, the shared identity includes everyone
    • One party's engagement with a subject is sufficient for the broader shared entity

    Loving Someone for Himself/Herself vs. Characteristics

    • Love is knowing a person completely, regardless of undesirable traits.
    • Loving someone for traits makes the person lovable

    Imprinting

    • Love is initially conditional on specific characteristics
    • Over time, love becomes unconditional
    • Love for the person, irrespective of their other characteristics

    Plato v. Nozick

    • Plato emphasizes collaborative “we,” and transcendence
    • Nozick emphasizes separate identities and mutual autonomy
    • Plato is metaphysical, Nozick is practical and rational

    Love as Offering the Potential for Healing

    • Love allows for deep understanding, acceptance and healing

    Carl Jung on Marriage as a Psychological Relationship

    • Collective Unconscious: shared reservoir of human experience
    • Relationships are influenced by collective unconscious
    • Archetypes: universal symbols influencing behaviors.
    • Projection: attributing feelings/issues onto the partner
    • Conflict when partners don't correspond to unconscious expectations.

    Unconsciousness and Relationships

    • Unconscious behaviors are reactive and unstable
    • Deeper forces shape interactions; conscious engagement is required

    Requirements for a Genuine/Psychological Relationship

    • Individuation: growth of self
    • Mutual recognition
    • Emotional awareness: honest communication
    • Commitment to growth

    Relationship Based on Instinct/Biology vs. Individuated Personality

    • Biological relationships are reactive, driven by unconscious drives;
    • Individuated relationships are based on personal growth, respect, shared values, etc.

    Horney on Love and Marriage

    • Patriarchal Ideal of Womanhood: conforming to male expectations
    • Consequences of Inherited Traditions: limitations on women's roles
    • Overvaluation of Love: dissatisfaction with romantic relationships
    • traces of excitement

    Women's Love vs. Man's

    • Women love through faith, men want to be loved
    • Women lose themselves in a man, they are not independent;
    • Women seek recognition from a loved man.
    • Women's deification of man creates challenges that are already predetermined to fail.

    Augustine: The City of God

    • Lust's origin: humanity's fall from grace in Eden
    • Disobedience disrupted harmony between soul and body
    • Lust as a consequence of sin reflects disordered nature; involuntary force
    • Pre-fall state: natural and controlled sexual desires.
    • Post-fall state: lust as a physical reminder of disobedience

    Platos Symposium

    • How love originated: humans were originally whole beings; split in two
    • Original humans: male (sun), female (earth), androgynous
    • Nature of original humans: innate desire for unity
    • Sexual union: temporary unity
    • Love's function: quest for wholeness, regaining lost unity
    • Lovers desire: merge souls, become one

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    Explore the intricacies of psychological concepts within relationships, focusing on the collective unconscious, archetypes, and projections. This quiz dives into how unconscious behaviors impact romantic connections and what is crucial for fostering conscious, genuine partnerships. Test your understanding of theories proposed by notable psychologists like Horney to better comprehend interpersonal dynamics.

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