Types of Relationships

1. Types of Relationships Dr. Green

3. Clique

5. Alienation

6. Enmeshed Relationships

7. Controlled Relationships

8. Relationships • Either both parties to the interaction are living or one is not • One is not in saprotropism in which an organism lives off of the dead • Both are living in • Antagonism in which one or both is/are harmed • Symbiosis in which one or both is/are helped • Neutralism in which neither is benefited nor harmed

9. Antagonisms • Parasitism • one type of organism is benefited and other is harmed • Suitors • Exploitation • one organism enslaves the other organism • Circe and Calypso • Predation • one organism catches and kills the other type of organism and take it as food • Cyclopes and Laestrygonians • Ammensalism or antibiosis • A by-product of one organism's activities harms the another, but no nutrition takes place • Sirens • Competition • two organisms when living in a specific ecosystem compete with each other for food and shelter • War

10. Symbiosis • Commensalism (hospitality) • One organism may be benefited • The other may remain neutral • No one is harmed • Mutualism (communities, such as families) • Both individuals are benefited by each other • Both are interdependent • Protocooperation (contracts) • Both the individuals are benefited by each other • They can also live independently

11. Neutralism • Two or more organisms live together • Neither is benefited nor harmed • Strangers

12. Relationships • With gods • With humans • Among fellow Greeks • Between Greeks and Barbarians • With sub-humans • Savages • With non-humans • Monsters • Outside all relationships • Shades

13. References • Relationship images from • netk.net.au/LegalTheory/Relationships1.asp