Question

Samaje was always close to his mother, but as he enters adolescence, he wants to spend less and less time with her. He finds her to be overbearing and overprotective. However, at times he finds himself craving the security of the relationship he used to have with his mother and wants to connect again emotionally with her. Which dialectic tension is Samaje experiencing?

Answer 1

When Samaje wants to be free from his mom but misses her at some times. He is experiencing Connection-Autonomy.

Step-by-step explanation:

Samaje is experiencing Connection-Autonomy. A Dialect tension characterized by the need of having freedom from a relationship, while at the same time the subject misses having that interaction when is in an scenarion in which the subject feel as free as he or she wanted to feel. It is a Psychological phenomenom identified inside the cognitive disonance dimension.