ABSTRACT

Ralph R. Greenson described for his audience how jealousy and envy are two of the most painful and destructive emotional states experienced by human beings. He chose to discuss these emotions because of his feeling that, especially in our country, jealousy, envy, andpossessiveness tend to be either dangerously high or damagingly absent. Jealousy and envy are two of the most painful and destructive emotional states experienced by human beings. Possessiveness is the excessive concern or desire to own things as property, as one's own, as possessions. Greed is nothing more than generalized possessiveness. It means to be acquisitive beyond reason, insatiable, gluttonous. Envy is an angry, hateful emotional reaction toward another person based on the feeling that the other person possesses something desirable which one would like to possess for oneself. Jealousy is another torturous state of mind which is compounded of love, hate, depression, envy, grief, and rivalry.