User:Cosmosus/sandbox/Psychology

Thinking
Rumination


 * not a reaction to a mood state, but a "response to failure to progress satisfactorily towards a goal" (see Goal Progress Theory of Rumination)
 * "repetitive thoughts generated by attempts to cope with self-discrepancy that are directed primarily toward processing the content of self-referent information and not toward immediate goal-directed action." Put more simply, when a person ruminates, he or she aims to answer questions such as:
 * How do I feel about this event?
 * How can I change my thoughts and feelings about the event?
 * How can I prevent disturbing thoughts and feelings in the future?

However, in answering these questions, ruminators tend to focus on their emotions (i.e., "self-referent information") as opposed to  problem solving  (i.e., "goal-directed action").

Perseverative cognition: continuous thinking about negative events in the past or in the future

Feelings & Emotions
Paris syndrome

Five stages of grief

Social rejection

David Hawkin's Map of Consciousness

Robert Plutchik's Wheel of Emotions

Angst vs Fear (see: Reddit post)

"Heidegger called 'fear' the unauthentic mode of 'Angst' which is the 'antipathetical' movement of 'Angst' in the work of Kierkegaard. Kierkegaard called 'Angst' the reality of freedom. The fear driven movement is a movement away from the reality of freedom that is possible in each moment as the halting, turning around and moving towards Angst, the 'sympathetical' movement.

In the works of these thinkers, as well as the work of Martin Buber, Schelling and I would argue Nietzsche, there are basically only two possible movements, the movement towards and the movement away from the 'homelessness' of 'Angst' (abyss in the work of Nietzsche)."


 * Movement away from Angst (Abyss) : Nietzsche says that 'feeling' is only the result of a combination of appreciation (the 'masculine') and formless possibility or 'chaos' ('feminine', which should not be confused with randomness). The movement away from the 'abyss' that is 'chaos' is the movement into an appreciation that creates feeling. That feeling now drives action and is stored in 'memory'. The memory of an appreciation attained in the past now drives man. This is equivalent to the work of Heidegger. Man gets 'thrown' froward by his past and tradition. All thinking by the 'small mind' (Nietzsche adopts an eastern term here) is actually a cowardly, fearful movement away from freedom.
 * Movement towards the Angst (Abyss) Nietzsche also calls a 'wakeful waiting' which basically means standing still in the feeling, holding your ground. Letting the grip of the past dissolve. This is what Heidegger calls moving forwards into 'death'. Now one becomes receptive to what the 'situation' presents. In a 'moment' one is captured by a beauty that had become hidden by the antipathetical movement of angst which creates a state of unawareness (beauty is characterized by Nietzsche as the 'feminine' which means the formless/chaos and also fertile accesibillity to creation) which again bring one to act in-the-world but now fertile with the power of creation.

In the works of these thinkers this movement towards the abyss or death is the movement of courage. The leap into the abyss Nietzsche actually calls the 'present' (normally we are always walking backwards, or lobster-like, forsaking the earth and everyone on it, the 'eternal succession' as opposed to the 'eternal return' which is actually the responsibility of the 'awakened' person, the eternal responsibility to return to the receptivity of the 'abyss') the 'present' is characterized by a combination of equanimity, joy and gratitude. A relaxing of the muscles and allowing of fate, Amor Fati. And he says that one who "can't stand on the threshold of the moment" will never do anything to make himself or another happy."

Existential crisis

Diagnosys
Borderline personality disorder

Negative affectivity

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