Towards an individual-psychological theory of endopsychic relations: social feeling and inner dialogue

Abstract

The fundamental approach of individual-psychological theory is interpersonal and transpersonal, while the intrapsychic aspect is less emphasized.
However, it is possible to use the tendency toward unity and cooperation among the various parts of the lifestyle metaphorically to hypothesize a mode of construction of the intrapsychic Self.
In this work, it is hypothesized that Social Feeling can act as an aggregating instance of the different biological and psychic processes, which, in turn, would express themselves in the activation of the Creative Self. Possible symptomatological consequences related to an inadequate aggregation of the constituent elements of Lifestyle and possible therapeutic implications are described