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Role Theory captures both:
structure and energy!
It is a systemic approach to
the old questions.
It can be tested and
is tested in many ways.
It is elegant and understandable.
It has a small set of building blocks
but unlimited capacity for explaining
different phenomena of life.
A role is a crystallized form of all responses
a person creates in similar situations.
Is the food shopper a role?
Psychosomatic roles
Social roles
Psychodramatic roles
How is the food shopper role built up?
Role size means the scope
of situations where the role is enacted.
Role size also means the strength of internal organization of the role.
Roles size grows by enactment. Overdeveloped roles have to be decreased, underdeveloped roles to be increased. Embryonic roles need care to start growing.
On a social network everybody is there without whom the person would be different.
Parents, grandparents, spouses, husband, wifes, children must be signed. Grandparents, friends, previous girlfriends and boyfriends, living or deceased relatives, important teachers, pets or even books can be on the map.
A whole network of supportive roles is a developed role network. Such a network tends to behave like one unit and can be described as one role at the next level of abstraction.
Spontaneity propels the individual towards an adequate response to a new situation or a new response to an old situation.
Role Theory is a framework for interpreting internal and social phenomena. It uses the language of both drama and psychology. It's best use is in psychodramatic and training settings.
Role Theory starts with
Jacob Loevy Moreno, the founder of psychodrama.
He had a vision of the human being having a source of divine energy.
The concept of "role" evaded the social sciences. Recently the term is used as a trivia (leadership roles, social roles, etc.). The original "role" concept is closer to the "identity" concept that is used in scientific circles.
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mutually rejective weak connection
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mutually acceptive strong connection
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ambivalent connection
Role systems
Roles
(pictured by circles)
Connections between roles
(pictured by lines and signes)
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energy, that flows into these systems and
generates short and long term dynamics,
that we generally call life
by Peter Aszalos
peter.aszalos@openessence.eu
During lifetime people accumulate a role repertoire. Health and capacity for survival supposes a richness of this repertoire. Missing important roles entail continuous suffering, maladaptation and compensation.
Definitely
Mary's behaviour, emotions and thoughts during shopping are evoked and enacted in every foodstore, on holiday or with a friend of her. She just needs a food source and she is ready.
This means the food shopper in her is a role: a complex that controlls her personality in a well defined set of situations.
Every morning Mary goes down to the shop, selects products, looks for healthy food, calculates the needs of her husband and children. She feels joy to prepare food for her family. She thinks her family is the best place on earth for her. She is a enthusiastic food shopper.
The sleaper, the eater, the lover, the runner. Psychosomatic roles have a genetic basis and are present at birth.
Early memories and feelings are stored in the body and can be released.
A role is a unit of the psyche composed of ideas, emotions and behaviour in a special domain of life.
Roles and role categorizations are not strict science. Rather they can be used as good guides in many situations. Fragmenting roles have to be weakened and progressive roles have to be strengthened.
Mather, father, husband, policeman, sibling, teacher, classmate, body-builder, pope.
All these roles have meaning only in a social context.
selects
looks
actions
calculates
From 3 components
Every morning Mary goes down to the shop, selects products, looks for healthy food, calculates the needs of her husband and children. She feels joy to prepare food for her family. She thinks her family is the best place on earth for her. She is a enthusiastic food shopper.
emotions
feels joy
thoughts
thinks her family
is the best place
Roles of imagination, where experience goes beyond the ordinary reality. Witches, heroes, Superman, little mouse, beautiful flower, wind and all the figures count here. Less fantastic examples include memories, anticipation of the future, expectations and fears. This realm is called surplus reality.
When a friend tells she had to fight with her internal beast no one thinks it was nonsense. Rather we get involved into the situation she is experiencing.
Emotions
Ideas
Negative roles that are split form the self and their counter role parts that embody the suppressive force.
Individuated roles, emerging from the "true self". They are the center of self-esteem, balance, awareness.
Adequate roles developed in the family system are also progressive.
Behaviour
Roles important for survival in the family system, including 'moving against', 'moving away' and submissive roles.
Roles have a history
biological functioning
generates psychosomatic
roles
roles are strenghtened
and weakened
new roles are created
new roles emerge
when the person meets
new situations
psychodramatic roles develop in the encounters with other people
social roles are defined by society and its values and children learn them during socialization
roles get connected
and loose connections
roles get connected
and form role systems
overdeveloped
embryonic
underdeveloped
adequate
A role is best named by its function.
Furthermore an adjective is added describing the atmosphere, giving further insight into the meaning of the role.
Embryonic roles are those (almost)
never enacted but being dormant in the psyche as seeds. They are activated in brand new situations or during psychotherapy.
Underdeveloped roles appear as a lack of adequate functioning.
Give or receive love or to be adequately assertive reflect underdeveloped roles.
Adequate roles have a strong organization. Ease of enactment and competence is characteristic for them.
It is an energy that works only NOW!
It cannot be stored, it only can be used.
Spontaneity arises when one gets into connection with something else.
Spontaneity is the spark that bring us to the unknown.
Spontaneity is a rediness for a free and vital response to the emerging moment.
Without creativity one can be a spontaneous idiot. Without spontaneity, creativity is just determinism.
Creativity uses all the forms, systems one has created, all the experience, memories and other resources one can reach in a given moment.
S - spontaneity
C - creativity
CC - cultural conserve
W - warm-up
On this social atom women are signed with red circles, man with blue rectangles. Distance means closeness felt here and now and connection strengths are relevant. Note some connections with +- signs that mean ambivalent relationships.
Who would be included to make life ideal?
How did it look in childhood, adolescence or in the future?
Collective network showing groups, clubs, organizations.
Surplus reality network: heroes, helpers, ancestors, fairy tail figures, etc.
A set of roles with given connections is a role system.
In most cases in life not a single role but a role system influences a persons actions.
Roles connect up in a meaningful whole.