How Long to Read Self-Preservation at the Center of Personality

How Long Does it Take to Read Self-Preservation at the Center of Personality?

It takes the average reader 3 hours and 5 minutes to read Self-Preservation at the Center of Personality by Ralf-Peter Behrendt

Assuming a reading speed of 250 words per minute. Learn more

Description

The book discusses personality as a unified set of evolved and culturally developed structures that serves a single and definable purpose, to maintain the individual’s safety, in the context of dyadic relationships, group processes and more abstract and fluid social configurations. The infant-mother relationship remains the blueprint for modes of relating to the social surround, at whatever level of complexity, and for approximating the sense of safety originally provided by the mother. The personality is organized around the need to maintain self-esteem, thereby preserving the individual’s sense of safety and warding off deep-seated paranoid anxiety, which signals the potential of annihilation of the self. Paranoid anxiety is the counterpart of intraspecific aggression and the potential of the group as a whole to attack and annihilate the individual. Paranoid anxiety, which was recognized by Melanie Klein as playing a critical role in infant development, is not overcome as development proceeds but remains latent, buried under layers of personality organization that are essentially concerned with sourcing recognition and approval from the social environment, thereby inhibiting others’ aggression and guarding against annihilation of the self. The book adds to self psychology (Kohut) by showing how the principle of self-preservation underpins all aspects of normal and abnormal character dynamics. It integrates self psychology with other branches psychoanalytic theory and revives the link between psychoanalysis and ethology. Ethology (Lorenz, Hass, Eibl-Eibesfeldt) has provided insights into how interrelated intraspecific aggression and appeasement gestures are critically important for the evolution of social behavior in higher animals as well as for cultural evolution in humans, insights that allow, more generally, for a bridging of the gap between psychoanalysis and the biology of social behavior. Furthermore, an evolutionary approach to character dynamics and related social phenomena will have important implications for understanding psychopathological vulnerabilities and self-perpetuating processes in mental illness.

How long is Self-Preservation at the Center of Personality?

Self-Preservation at the Center of Personality by Ralf-Peter Behrendt is 183 pages long, and a total of 46,299 words.

This makes it 62% the length of the average book. It also has 57% more words than the average book.

How Long Does it Take to Read Self-Preservation at the Center of Personality Aloud?

The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 4 hours and 13 minutes to read Self-Preservation at the Center of Personality aloud.

What Reading Level is Self-Preservation at the Center of Personality?

Self-Preservation at the Center of Personality is suitable for students ages 10 and up.

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