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Understanding Yourself to Manage Terror: Insights from Psychological Theories

This discussion explores the connection between self-awareness and the management of terror through various psychological frameworks, including Terror Management Theory and Dynamic Systems Theory. Key concepts discussed include mortality salience, self-esteem, consciousness, and the interrelation of the private and public self. We examine the teachings of notable thinkers—Buddha, Christ, Nietzsche, and Jung—to understand how their insights can help individuals manage terror in personal and social contexts. This exploration aims to deepen self-understanding and foster resilience against existential threats.

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Understanding Yourself to Manage Terror: Insights from Psychological Theories

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  1. Process and Content What do you have to know about yourself to control Terror?

  2. TerminologyThe atheism tapes, Dennet • last week’s summary: • Sheet 1: Terror Management Theory • Sheet 2: Dynamic Systems Theory • this week’s discussion? • Sheet 3: Experiencing myself • Sheet 4: Experiencing control • Sheet 5: Solutions for any-body • next week’s research? • Sheet 6: How about this…

  3. mortality salience => self esteem => public self: embedded in social context through the looking glass darkly => private self: broad and richly interconnected self as an infinite regress conscious control? 6th sense, or planning machine? Proces and Content; what do you have to know about YOURSELF to CONTROL TERROR? Terror Management TheoryObjective Content

  4. level specifity, attractors, self organization, emergent properties, affordances, constraints, perseverance, bifurcations, Consciousness emerges out of content-addressing processes. It is the consistent pattern of experiences. By emerging as consistent, it stableizes the future. Proces AND Content; WHAT DO you HAVE TO know about yourself TO control terror? Dynamic Systems TheoryObjective Process

  5. Hume’s Theatre, Self as Narrative Arendt’s Action, Self as known in relation to... Freud: Fear and conformity/stability Guattari: Desire and revolutionairy/flexibility Proces and Content; what do YOU have to KNOW about yourself to control terror? You know yourself better than I do!Experiencing myself

  6. Buddha: Process: Attention & concentration Christ: Content: Love & forgiveness Nietsche: Über mensch: Consciousness of nothingness Jung: Archetypes: Consciousness of the collective body Proces and Content; what do you have to know about YOURself to CONTROL terror? …, but do you know your Consciousness?Experiencing control

  7. Death (of self) as rapture in attainment of end-states, as rapture of stability and control, as diminsihing of entropy. I am a process. I can come at rest, stableize my entropy. I do not fear death, anymore... Death (of others) as re-patterning of talk, behaviour, addressing, etc., that is content specific towards the dead person and death itself. I am love. We are all creatures of a forgiving entity. When I die, I will go to this entity, from now on... PROCES and CONTENT; what do you have to know about yourself to control terror? Termination of process & content, of objectivity & experience

  8. How about this…? … And will the Bureau of Homeland Security fund all this, … or will the fundamentalists?

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