Not exact matches
Berne's second major
concept is that of ego - states; he says that our behavior patterns, with their associated feelings, are «a limited repertoire... which are
psychological realities... [the products of] the
human brain... are organized and stored in the form of ego - states.»
(This
concept is close to what I have described as the will - to - relate, which is the fundamental
human drive since it is only in relationships that people can satisfy most of their basic
psychological needs.)
The
psychological concept of «mirroring» has been proposed before, and it certainly is a real phenomenon in dogs: mirroring means taking emotional and
psychological cues from someone else, and dogs have evolved an amazingly empathetic capacity for this with their
human owners.
In Big Girl the artist explores
concepts of physical and
psychological transformation by exposing a mysterious confluence between the
human and animal worlds.
In Specters of Marx, Jacques Derrida returns to Freud's
concept of the three traumas inflicted on
human narcissism that continue to haunt modern subjectivity, the three intellectual revolutions that have de-centered the ego: the cosmological trauma (the Copernican subject no longer stands at the center of the universe; the biological trauma (the Darwinian subject is no longer at the apex of evolution); and the
psychological trauma (the Freudian subject possesses an unconscious and is no longer master even of himself).
Adler was one of the first persons to provide family counseling, group counseling, and public education to teach
psychological concepts to the general public as a way of improving the
human condition.
The darker and brighter sides of
human existence: Basic
psychological needs as a unifying
concept