Abstract
This article is intended to present new thinking and expansion of the knowledge of emotions and feelings within transactional analysis, through a dialogue between Eric Berne, Antonio Damasio and Humberto Maturana. From Berne comes the guiding framework of transactional analysis and the core concept of ego states. From Damasio comes the distinction between feeling, emotion and mood as well as an understanding of the organisation of the brain. From Maturana comes an understanding of the importance of emotions, particularly the emotion of love, in the process of human evolution. From this dialogue can be seen the foundation for the five primary emotions referred to within transactional analyis: anger, fear, sadness, joy and love. Finally, there is a proposal to update the concept of ego states in line with that dialogue. Citation - APA format:Costa, J. (2018). About Sensations, Emotions and Feelings: A Contribution to the Theoretical Basis of Transactional Analysis. International Journal of Transactional Analysis Research & Practice, 9(1), 43-51. https://doi.org/10.29044/v9i1p43
Highlights
Working with transactional analysis for understanding how humans evolve towards autonomy, together with the orienting philosophy, method and therapeutic attitudes proposed by Eric Berne (Tudor, 2002) has been a compelling path for me in facilitating development during the course of my professional practice as a doctor, psychotherapist, researcher and educator over the past 30 years.In this article I aim to rethink and expand knowledge about emotions and feelings based on a dialogue between Eric Berne, Antonio Damasio and Humberto Maturana.To that end, I consider the differentiation between emotion and feeling developed by Damasio (2004) in his research in the field of neuroscience, and relate it to concepts of ego states and natural and learned emotions within transactional analyis
There is a reflection on how Eric Berne’s philosophy impacts on the scope of the work of transactional analysts as they interact with clients, and how that motivates, permeates and emerges from the interactions related to the expansion of consciousness and identification of action relating to the emotional world
In our lives, when we find ourselves in strongly emotional situations, we are in general invaded by the production of many substances and physical sensations and we run the risk of plunging into them without the awareness that we can experience them as our allies (Steiner, 1998), whether they are pleasant or not
Summary
This article is intended to present new thinking and expansion of the knowledge of emotions and feelings within transactional analysis, through a dialogue between Eric Berne, Antonio Damasio and Humberto Maturana. From Berne comes the guiding framework of transactional analysis and the core concept of ego states. From Damasio comes the distinction between feeling, emotion and mood as well as an understanding of the organisation of the brain. From Maturana comes an understanding of the importance of emotions, the emotion of love, in the process of human evolution. From this dialogue can be seen the foundation for the five primary emotions referred to within transactional analyis: anger, fear, sadness, joy and love. There is a proposal to update the concept of ego states in line with that dialogue
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