insights INSIGHT Envy Is A Socially Rooted Pain ios_share
Envy arises wherever there is emotionally meaningful inequality and rarely appears directly without defenses.
It often masks admiration and pain tied to felt inferiority and shame.
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insights INSIGHT Envy Versus Jealousy ios_share
Envy differs from jealousy: envy is dyadic and targets what another has, while jealousy involves a triangular relationship.
Envy develops earlier and can become a pervasive, society-level ressentiment.
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question_answer ANECDOTE Childhood Examples Explain Envy ios_share
Children vividly demonstrate primitive forms of envy through toy-snatching and tower-knocking examples.
These early behaviors model greedy and destructive envy seen later in life.
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Summary:
Envy can arise wherever there exists inequality between people: in societies and families, between siblings, genders, and generations. “Envy is the tax which all distinction must pay” (R.W. Emerson). Envy has a bad reputation, at times even considered taboo, and yet still it proves to be ever-present. This episode explores the psychoanalytic understanding of envy and its implications for society and therapeutic processes, such as the phenomenon known as ‘negative therapeutic reaction.’ However, envy is not only destructive, but is also a driving force of human development.
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Literature Recommendations
Feldman, M. (2008). Envy and the negative theraputic reaction. In: Roth, P. &Lemma, A. (Hg.): Envy and Gratitude Revisited. London: Karnac.
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Klein, M. (1957/1984). Envy and Gratitude and Other Works 1946-1963. London: Hogarth Press.
Young, E. (2000). The Role of Envy in Psychic Growth. Fort Da, 6, 57—68.
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