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 »»
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 »»
