Word: janov
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...DIFFICULTY in Janov's argument arises in his rejection of symbolic behavior for what he calls real behavior. In the return of a person to his self, according to Janov, he begins to behave according to real needs and not according to wants which appear as needs because of neurosis...
...Janov's theory of needs is part of another alternative tradition, maintaining that the indiscriminate attempt to pursue wants stems only from people's inability to fulfill genuine needs...
...have described Marx's view to reveal what seems to be a clear connection between the process of social alienation he describes and the origins of neurosis as outlined in Janov. Both Janov and Freud suggest, as Freud puts...
...Janov can not reject symbolic behavior in society. Unlike bodily functions, social actions must be interpreted according to a set of shared symbols. For people to reason--to conceive of activity while not in the process of acting--they require a set of symbols whose meanings other people understand. This system is language. Without language, conceiving of anything in the world is impossible, so that our power of conceptualization rests entirely on languages created by society. Alienation, which depends on conceptualization, comes after and not before the formation of symbols. It is in this sense that society creates humanity...
...OTHER GAP in Janov's theory is his understanding of the history of needs. The repressed individual needs rooted in our biological system never change throughout the course of our physical development. My unfulfilled need to be held when I was two would emerge in Primal Therapy precisely as I would have expressed it as an infant, through tears and physical contortions. But social needs change as societies evolve. Each act of production necessitates the act of producing instruments for that production, and so on, so that the fulfillment of each social need creates new social needs. Society is continually...