Eating your life-script: anchoring identity

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mich Page
Keyword(s):  
Life Script

Feelings of Quarantine: Allegories for the Lockdown

2021 ◽  
pp. 1354067X2110040
Author(s):  
Linus Paul Frederic Guenther
Keyword(s):  
Coping Strategies ◽  
Meaning Making ◽  
Psychological Perspective ◽  
Study Analysis ◽  
Subjective Meaning ◽  
Case Study Analysis ◽  
Creative Self ◽  
Life Script ◽  
The Voice

This case study shows how allegories are a means to express the inexpressible and how Allegory Analysis can be a method to reveal it and bring out the subjective meaning making, life script ideology, and capability to deal with the ambivalent in critical life situations. From a cultural psychological perspective, the research is based on feelings during the quasi-quarantine period of the COVID-19 pandemic. The study tries to understand the coping strategies with which people deal with a psychological crisis in general concerning for the COVID-19 lockdown. It discusses further ways to deal with the ambivalences and subjective meaning making arousing through such a crisis. The case study analysis of Miss K. not only showed her meaning making processes and attitude of life but also showed how to deal with the uncertainty during the critical lockdown period. Through her allegories, she utters her current life script ideology that living nowadays means to function like a machine while being creative, self-reflective at the same time. Her meaning making process counterbalanced between the voice of being delivered to withdrawal or depression versus the voice of being able to learn, connect, and relax. Her coping strategy was bearing the ambivalence in a psychological crisis with faith.

scholarly journals Narratives of normality: Finnish prisoners envisioning their future

2021 ◽  
pp. 146247452110071
Author(s):  
Emma Villman
Keyword(s):  
Qualitative Interviews ◽  
Personal Narratives ◽  
Normal Life ◽  
Life Script ◽  
Present Life

The ambition of living ‘a normal life’ appears to be common among prisoners prior to release. Besides portraying for the life desired upon release, the notion of a normal life can say something about what the persons aspiring to it thinks of their present life, what they want their life to be like in future, and what they consider attainable. This article explores the subjective and social considerations of prisoners’ desires for normality. Qualitative interviews with prisoners at low-security open prisons in Finland ( N = 45) revealed three narratives of normality: (1) nostalgic normality, balancing the disruption caused by imprisonment; (2) imagined normality, envisioning a future life script; (3) challenging views of normality, which is still desired, but whose legal and conventional norms are contested. While prison authorities and prisoners generally idealize normality in terms of conduct, prisoners’ stories reveal that they utilize the notion for a number of reasons. The personal narratives of normality can function as genuine and strategic expressions of conformity or resistance. In their narratives, the prisoners disclose the obstacles to normality that they anticipate, showing the uncertainty behind their simple wish to “just live a normal life.”

scholarly journals The Little Professor: Reflection on the Structure, Development and Evolution of the Adult in the Child

2019 ◽  
Vol 10 (2) ◽  
pp. 79-86 ◽  
Author(s):  
Tânia Elizabeth Caetano Alves
Keyword(s):  
Personality Trait ◽  
Adult Life ◽  
Early Years ◽  
Structure Development ◽  
The World ◽  
Life Script ◽  
Development And Evolution

According to the concept of the Life Script, developed by Eric Berne, the fate of each individual is sketched in the early years of life. The subdivision of Child Ego State, known as Adult in the Child or Little Professor, is responsible for decoding the world throughout intuition and analogical thought and, thus, in one way or another, having physical and emotional survival guaranteed. The purpose of this article is to qualify and recognise the Adult in the Child and its relevance in the construction of personality trait, by studying the anatomical, physiological and emotional scenario in which the Adult in the Child develops itself. The author suggests that the peculiar stamina and wisdom held in the Adult in the Child may be present in adult life in a positive manner, even if the events that structured it were dramatic.

Age and gender effects in the cultural life script of Japanese adults

2014 ◽  
Vol 26 (3) ◽  
pp. 307-321 ◽  
Author(s):  
Steve M. J. Janssen ◽  
Ai Uemiya ◽  
Makiko Naka
Keyword(s):  
Gender Effects ◽  
Age And Gender ◽  
Cultural Life ◽  
Japanese Adults ◽  
And Gender ◽  
Life Script

scholarly journals Life Script Events and Autobiographical Memories of Important Life Story Events in Mexico, Greenland, China, and Denmark

2017 ◽  
Vol 6 (1) ◽  
pp. 60-73 ◽  
Author(s):  
Alejandra Zaragoza Scherman ◽  
Sinué Salgado ◽  
Zhifang Shao ◽  
Dorthe Berntsen
Keyword(s):  
Life Story ◽  
Autobiographical Memories ◽  
Life Script

From Being a Stutterer to Becoming a Person Who Stutters

1979 ◽  
Vol 9 (1) ◽  
pp. 41-44 ◽  
Author(s):  
Michael Sugarman
Keyword(s):  
Transactional Analysis ◽  
Life Script

The author details his recognition and confrontation of his stuttering, and how the tools of transactional analysis helped him to shed the negative aspects of his earlier life script.

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