The definition of feelings in the mirror of science Clearly, defining feelings and their triggers is a task that generations of scientists and philosophers have been gritting their teeth on. In contrast to the popular view which assumes sensory perception as the trigger of emotion, modern feedback »»
See also Kurt Schneider’s publication:The Social Significance of Soul Pain The negative BASIC sensomotor feelings In addition to the sensomotor basic feelings, I also count the intestinal basic feelings of hunger, disgust, nausea and vomiting to those negative feelings. Depending »»
Strategies of the socialized secondary self The socialization that leads from the primary to the secondary self is inseparably linked to the process of repression and suppression of unwanted emotional responses. Therefore the development of the secondary self, the very core product of this process »»
Primary Rage The primary aggressiveness serves to demarcate us from a life-threatening danger; we know it from the animal kingdom. In humans it is – as a helpful form of behavior – the physical expression of the state of psychic primary rage. Aggressiveness in order to distinguish oneself »»
I am convinced that the abused early childhood basic trust cannot be restored by cognitive efforts. The return to one's own body, the allowance of touching oneself and others, and thus of feelings, is an essential prerequisite for this.
Although according to MACHLEIDT and others rage and anxiety are not direct inversely related in the electroencephalogram, their mutual relationship cannot be ignored. The two feelings are either intermingled or they are in competition with each other. Similar to the difference between »»
As the term meditation is paraphrased in the German “Duden” with different keywords like contemplation, pondering and religious immersion, the word obviously contains different aspects of meaning. From the Eastern point of view in particular pondering is exactly what meditation is not »»
Infants in the state of being love The phase of the primary self is of central importance for the psychic development of human beings in a double sense. On one hand the unprotected helplessness of the small being, which has no possibility of avoiding psychic painful experiences, opens the door to »»
The psychological pain of the DEPRIVATION of love From the disregard and repression of love (the being love as well as the primary excited love) – this elemental need of life – arise acts of the most brutal violence, especially when people are repeatedly denied this experience and especially when »»
The biological pressure to infidelity should not be underestimated in either men or women; There exist various causes: Men need to spread their genetic makeup as widely as possible while females take great care to make sure that the few occasions on which they can successfully carry a pregnancy to »»
