Transactional Analysis Theory and Practice: Other Terms relevant to TA Theory

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Other Terms Relevant to understanding TA Theory

1. Meaning: We at times inadvertently and unawarely attach meaning to what is said, expressed, done or caused to be done. Wikipedia lists these seven meaning of the word meaning.

• Meaning (Existential), the worth of life in contemporary existentialism.
• Meaning (Linguistics), is a meaning that is communicated through the use of language.
• Meaning (Non-Linguistic), a general term of art to capture senses of the word "meaning", independent from its linguistic uses.
• Meaning (Philosophy of language), definition, elements, and types of meaning  discussed in philosophy.
• Meaning (Psychology), epistemological position, in psychology as well as    philosophy, linguistics, semiotics and sociology.
• Meaning (Semiotics), the distribution of signs in sign relations.
• Meaning (the meaning of life), a notion concerning the nature of human        existence.

The word meaning is significant in Transactional Analysis because what a parent says and what the child makes out of it, may not be the same thing. It is the meaning that the child attaches to the spoken statement that is true for it. It structures its belief system.

2. Personalisation: Personalisation means customisation. In other contexts personalisation means making several aspects of any thing appealing to one or another. This is used in marketing and advertising. In Transactional Analysis context, it is a part that is held to be true by a person. Thereafter it becomes a not-but statement for the person.

3. Attribution: It means naming a person for a quality. The person is identified with a particular quality, characteristic or trait. It is also significant in the self naming mode. This happens because we may rigidly hold on to a quality which may not be present. It however limits the person's capacity. This is true in script beliefs.

4. Bias: An prejudiced view of another which may not be entirely true. This shows up frequently in the cross-up after switch in Game.

5. Cybernetics: ‘Noise’ reduces or affects the quality of communication in electronics. ‘Noise’ however improves the quality of communication in human conversations or interactions. ‘Noise’ is incorporated by accompanying facial expressions, head slants, pose and posture, and gestures of sorts. ‘Noise’ is incorporated as part of what we say or express by use of words such as assertions. Berne says that a precise message is psychologically inconceivable. This phenomenon is called cybernetics.

Orthogenesis Paul Federn, in his psychoanalytic-based ego psychology, theorized that when awakening from deep sleep the ego's development, deprived of cathexis during that sleep, recapitulates.  

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