Existential resistance to life: ambivalence, avoidance & control.(psychoanalysis) From: Journal of Heart Centered Therapies | Date: March 22, 2004| Author: Hartman, David; Zimberoff, Diane | COPYRIGHT 2004 Wellness Institute. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan.  All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group.Copyright information

Abstract: We use the term existential embrace of life for being fully alive, and existential resistance to life for any self-sabotage that denies and thwarts that potential. In this article, we survey three specific forms that resistance to life may take: ambivalence, avoidance and control. We correlate this conceptualization to current attachment theory and affect regulation theory principles; we apply this conceptualization earlier in life than others have suggested, to the prena...

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