BEHAVIORISM OR PERSONALITY DISTORTION
BEHAVIORISM OR PERSONALITY DISTORTION
Author(s): Iuliana Voroneanu (Păunescu)Subject(s): History of Psychology, Cognitive Psychology, Behaviorism
Published by: Editura Arhipelag XXI
Keywords: behavior; borderline situation; crisis; personality; ambiguity;
Summary/Abstract: Since the first half of the twentieth century, psychology is dominated by a new orientation that excluded the analysis of consciousness, which involved the set of brain mechanisms, internal mental processes and emotional feelings, invisible, setting as its object of study exclusively the external behavior of man, respectively behaviorism. Defined as the total response, in response to an experienced extreme situation, in relation to the environment and the reactions of internal tensions oriented in a significant direction, behavior can thus designate how to be and act through observable manifestations, meaning and adaptive direction of behavior being very important. Voiculescu proposes in Behaviorism a painting of the woman with an aura of mysteries, the savior woman, who finally fights to defend the consorts and the hermitage, in which we easily recognize the image of the outlaw in the feminine hypostasis. It is a strong feminine presence, who does not know the law of obedience, but only that of justice, a kind of unconventional Messiah.
Journal: Journal of Romanian Literary Studies
- Issue Year: 2021
- Issue No: 25
- Page Range: 741-746
- Page Count: 6
- Language: Romanian