THE FEELING OF JEALOUSY AS AN OBJECT OF PSYCHOLOGICAL ANALYSIS

Abstract

The article reflects the features of jealousy as an important component of the emotional and sensory sphere of the individual. Jealousy is a negative feeling that develops in a triadic relationship, where one partner experiences a lack of love, attention, etc., while the other one expresses this explicitly or implicitly to someone else. It has been determined that a necessary condition for the appearance of jealousy are three components: the presence of at least three people who are involved in emotionally close relationships; subject-object relations between partners; feeling of one's own inferiority and insignificance. It has been established that the presence of this feeling is most often observed in sibling relationships, in relationships between mother-in-law and daughter-in-law, at work and in mixed families. It has been shown that jealousy arises in an individual in response to a lack of resources (this explains the emergence of jealousy among siblings) and as a defensive strategy (this theory connects the emergence of jealousy with the protection of descendants). It has been proven that jealousy is not only intense emotional experiences. This phenomenon also contains certain thoughts (cognitive component) and is determined by specific behavior caused by the synthesis of thoughts and feelings of the jealous person. The cognitive component of jealousy contains certain basic beliefs, rules, and distorted thinking. The emotional component of jealousy is a complex of various (sometimes polar) emotional experiences of high intensity (fear, envy, hatred and love, despair, anxiety, anger and rage, grief, powerlessness, shame, pain, etc.). The behavioral component is the forms of response that a person uses in a situation of experiencing jealousy (interrogation, search for evidence, study of social circle, insults and distancing, accusations, humiliation, manipulation and blackmail, revenge, etc.).