Being love as basic state The ocean at rest, immeasurably deep and vast, is a good metaphor for the “state” of being love. The word “state” I put in quotation marks because in this context this word is misleading. The basic homeostatic state of being love is not static »»
Except for the earliest childhood, man never lives in the state of being love for a longer period of time. In the course of his development, the love experience changes from being love and the primary excited love to purposeful love and the secondary excited love. I distinguish three phases. The »»
SIGMUND FREUD never questioned socialization. The development of human consciousness is inconceivable without preceding socialization, since man is always an individual and a social being. Only in the face of another man he/she can experience him/herself as different, as an individual.
Thesis: The primary self corresponds to the actual being – the "soul" – before it is alienated by the secondary self which is formed via socialization. In the history of development the decisive motor for this quantum leap is formed by cognitive-abstract (digital-sequential) thought processes »»
Essential qualities of love of being are: Openness, Uncriticism, Naive Wonder, Timelessness, Spacelessness and Permeability, Emptiness, Experience of Freedom and Independence, Eutonic Body State, Tenderness, Aperspectival Experiential World, Oceanic Feeling, Averbal Figurative Process, Contentment »»
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 »»
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 »»
My emotional model is composed of five building blocks. Based on this, I will show step by step the transition from the physiological reflex reaction to psychological reactions by means of schemata. In addition, it is important to consider the four levels on which feelings can take place.
