Sublime

In the past, that is to say up to fifty years ago, the doctor’s psychological training was still very bad. His psychiatric textbooks were wholly confined to clinical descriptions and the systematization of mental diseases, and the psychology taught in the universities was either philosophy or the so-called “experimental psychology” inaugurated by

TA is closely related to ego psychology. Terms such as adaptation, reality testing, autonomy, and responsibility are key concepts in TA’s working language. Object relations theory is also recognisable in the definitions of ego states and the script. Particularly, second-order structural analysis can be seen as a working model of object relations.

Commenting on the relationship of scholasticism and mysticism in medieval Christian philosophy, Heidegger wrote, “Philosophy as a rationalistic structure, detached from life, is powerless; mysticism as irrational experience is aimless.”