Sublime

can use to advance her script.

What we are concerned with here, however, are the unconscious games played by innocent people engaged in duplex transactions of which they are not fully aware, and which form the most important aspect of social life all over the world.

the payoff of a game reinforces a person’s basic existential position,

Berne labeled networks that develop early in life as Child ego states. When we activate one of these, we act like the child we once were. Networks which represent the internalization of the people who raised us, as we experienced them, Berne named Parent. When in Parent we think, feel, and act like one of our parents or like someone who took their

Another task of the Adult is to regulate the activities of the Parent and the Child, and to mediate objectively between them.

a game consists of the following sequence of transactions. Person A gives an ostensible message while at the same time giving a hidden message. Person B responds to the hidden message. Person A then switches ego states and has a surprise bad feeling.

the elements of theoretical game analysis: thesis, aim, roles, transactions, paradigm, moves, six types of advantages, and payoff.

Berne described ego states as coherent ways of thinking, feeling, and behaving that occur together.