The origins of Structured Psychology

• abandonment, rejection [subject abandons/rejects object]: A subject ceases to confirm an object’s relationability. A subject experiences an object as non-confirming or contradicting and, therefore, is no longer able to confirm that object.
• abandonment, rejection [object abandons/rejects subject]: An object ceases to confirm a subject’s relationability. An object experiences a subject as non-confirming or contradicting and, therefore, is no longer able to confirm that subject.
• abandonment of object or subject, fear of: A subject feels threatened by justified rejection. E.g., a lover unwittingly contradicts a primary confirming object and, therefore, is implicitly threatened by an intended, neutralizing contradiction by that object.
• abandonment of control, dependency: A subject’s self abandons all control with regard to a specific object or event. E.g., love between mother and child, affection for a house pet, drug dependency, sexual release, food consumption, music appreciation, etc.

The virtual representation of an object’s concrete existence. An idea, thought, or mental representation of any object’s concrete existence.

A subject’s emotional response to an object or event’s environmental relationability. Admiration is, invariably, a subject’s measure of an object’s level of control. Levels of control demonstrate levels of environmental relationability. Admiration should not be confused with the feeling of love, as emotions of love are characterized by their total absence of control.

That human emotion resulting from a need to neutralize or compensate for past or present existential contradiction. The intensity of a subject’s efforts to compensate for or neutralize contradiction is not typically proportional to the intensity of the motivating contradiction in question but rather implicitly proportional to all of a subject’s accumulated contradictions.

A human emotion resulting from a subject’s inability to neutralize past or present contradictions. Anger is frequently associated with frustration, as frustration is the direct result of repetitive, unresolved contradiction.

A human sentiment that reflects a real or virtual impending reduction in a subject’s perception of future relational confirmations of objects or events.

That process by which any given relational activity between subject and object becomes identified with the relating subject in question.

• awareness, reflection, consciousness: The psychological phenomenon resulting from an ego’s relationship with any given object or event. I.e., relational activity of any central nervous system with its object world or environment. Awareness can be, although is not necessarily, a conscious relational event.
• awareness, self: Misnomer. See consciousness: Self-awareness should be considered self-consciousness as, in a psycho-relational setting, awareness is a subconscious phenomenon.

That relational phenomenon by which a positive element or group of elements contained in a subject’s ego are positively valued by that subject’s environment.

Any relationally driven reactive manifestation of animated existence. Emotions are as much a part of human behavior as are any other kind of physically demonstrated human activity.

• boredom: The emotional state characterized by the absence of confirming relational activity. Boredom is highly contradictory to people’s progressively defined existence. In other words, it contradicts existential continuance. Boredom can be a precursor to depression.
• boredom, fear of: An emotional state in which a subject is threatened by or senses the probability of a structural contradiction created by the possible absence of future relational activity.

• challenge, positive: That relational phenomenon by which a contradicting object or event is experienced as a good candidate for successful neutralization.
• challenge, negative: That relational phenomenon by which a contradicting object or event is experienced as a poor candidate for successful neutralization.
• challenge accumulation, incomplete: The accumulation of non-neutralized negative challenges. Examples: A team loses the majority of the season’s games. A painter is unable to translate an idea to his canvas.

Behavior in which a subject voluntarily exposes to his or her environment any potential targets for contradiction that the subject feels they could become. Example: “Now this may sound stupid but…” or “I don’t want to offend anybody but…” Cleansing is designed to defend one’s self from potential contradiction.

A relational phenomenon in which a characteristic or natural trait contained in a subject’s ego is positively valued by its environment. Example: George naturally enjoys reading. George’s environment admires readers who read because they love to, not because they feel they must.

Concrete or virtual relational activity by which a subject voluntarily or involuntarily expresses the status, condition, or value of his or her self.

Explicit, non-virtual. A relational event or activity that is controlled by the object of that relational activity. Non-abstract.

An environmental response which, on one hand, validates or confirms a relating subject’s power or ability to relate while, at the same time, positively confirms an element or aspect identified with that subject. Also validation. For example, a subject anxious to be positively confirmed is told that he/she is attractive.

The psychological representation of a subject’s repeated relationship with a non-neutralizable, structurally damaging environment. The attempt to forcibly relate to a structurally damaging environment will be inexorably experienced as confusing. This is true because all contradictions are illogical and, therefore, by definition, confusing.

• consciousness, awareness, reflection, sub-consciousness: The psycho-neurological registration of relational experience.
• consciousness, sub: See consciousness. States of consciousness are classically confused with self-consciousness.

Any living object’s objective source of relational reference.

The implicit characteristic of all things existing to continue their existential state until obliged not to by an outside force.

• contradiction: That relational event in which a subject’s environment denies the reality of its psycho-existential structure. All contradiction is, in a psycho-existential sense, “life-threatening” as any relational event that threatens to contradict the existential integrity of a living thing is, implicitly, threatening to one’s psycho-existential survival; A relational event that denies, voids, or nullifies a relating subject’s existential reality. I.e., I am not who I am.
• contradiction, self: That relational event that denies, voids, or nullifies a relating object’s existential reality. I.e., a square circle.
• contradiction, structural: That relational event that denies, voids, or nullifies the structural reality of existence itself. I.e., something non-relational, non-confirming, or non-continuing.
• contradiction accumulation: The systematic accumulation of contradiction.
• contradiction neutralization: That relational activity in which a contradiction is contradicted.

The active management of a quantifiable relational event.

• criticism, contradiction: That relational activity in which an object expresses a contradictory assessment of any given subject’s relationability.
• criticism, self: A defensive tactic used to re-establish relational control in an attempt to impede future environmental contradiction of a relationship.
• defense mechanism: An unsubstantiated Freudian theory that states that people uses mechanically generated subconscious strategies to deal with specific contradictory aspects of reality. Although humans frequently employ defensive tactics to defend themselves from contradiction, such tactics are not mechanical in nature nor necessarily defensive or subconscious.

That psychological phenomenon in which a subject’s perception of his or her environment does not coincide with that environment’s perception of its self.

An environmental constraint. A command of an environmental nature in which choice has been eliminated from the commanded object’s options. Demand often contains erroneous relational polarity, as frequently the author of the demand is not the protagonist of its proposed completion.

Classically considered a defense mechanism, denial is, from a psycho-existential perspective, a subject’s implicit psycho-existential reaction to the structural impossibility of being identified with contradiction.

A psychological condition in which a subject abandons all confirmational control in relationship to any given object or event.

A human emotion resulting from a reduction in a subject’s existential continuance, or future. Existential non-continuance implies a structural contradiction.

Humankind’s aware, genetically created, non-environmental point of relational departure. The ego contains the relational result of humankind’s entire historical background.

Man’s neuro-psychological response to the manifestation of relational affirmation or contradiction. The emotions serve as representatives of man’s psycho-existential reality.

That emotional response to the perception of an un-realizable affirmation.

The abstract or conceptual expression of that which exists.

That human emotion that underscores a subject’s virtual or concrete realization of impending contradiction. The intensity of this emotion depends directly upon the intensity of the impending contradiction as well as a subject’s sense of their loss of control over the imminent threat.

That human emotion resulting from a subject’s repeated failed (contradicting) attempts to achieve affirmation from an object or event. Frustration may occur during both ego-based as well as environmentally based relational activity, although is most always seen in an environmental setting.

That emotional state created by a subject’s realization of having committed an environmental contradiction while being in the virtual or concrete presence of the contradicted environment itself.

That human emotion created by intense relational coincidence or balance between a subject and its environment.

A subject’s emotional response to repetitive contradictions emanating from a specific object or event.

• identity, human, self-image, self: The environmental representation of a subject’s self.
• identity, collective: That relational phenomenon by which an animate being associates an object or event with a collective group of related objects or events. The leopard recognizes his own species through specific related physical cues such as smell, size, color, or sounds coming from an animal of its own species. A football fan of team A identifies a fan of the same persuasion by the similarly related team shirt he is wearing. The shirt forms part of that subject’s collective identity.

The psychological representation of an object or event that is absent of any concrete stimuli related to that representation. Mental imagery, idea. See abstraction.

That emotional response created by an overt absence of environmental control and/or intervention between a loving subject and the object of that subject’s love.

That relational act of contradicting a perceived contradiction. Neutralization is frequently ineffective and often leads to mutually reciprocal attempts at neutralization by both subject and object alike.

A subject’s world of objects and events. Humankind’s environment of relational reference or, simply, one’s environment.

The psychological point of finality of a relationship.

• pain, physical: The physical representation of contradiction. Although physical pain can remain as part of one’s aware subconscious, it may also be manifested as related to the self, thereby adding significantly important psychological components to the physical experience itself.
• pain, psychological: The physically manifested, psychological representation of contradiction. Although psychological pain may remain as a part of humankind’s aware subconscious, it may also be manifested consciously as a part of the self, therefore, more significantly impacting the subject’s experience of the same.

The subject or the object of any given relational process, sequence, or event.

• projection: Classically considered a “defense mechanism,” this phenomenon is, in truth, the implicit result of a simple structural reality. When a subject commits an environmental error and perceives the origin of that error outside of the self it is not because the subject has projected anything, but rather because the subject has simply identified the source of that error as being where it is correctly located: in one’s environment.
• projection, relational perception: That psychological phenomenon in which a human subject is said to “project” unacceptable values, fears, wishes, or perceptions found in his or her own subconscious onto another individual or object, thereby distancing the unacceptable nature of such perceptions from the subject’s subconscious, or ego. From a psycho-structural perspective, however, such so-called psychological phenomena are not at all the result of some psycho-mechanical defense strategy but rather the direct result of the psycho-existential structure that guides the behavior of all living things. When the inept carpenter blames his tools for a job badly done, it is not because the carpenter mechanically launches forbidden or unacceptable ego content outside of the self, but rather because a job poorly done is a psycho-existential contradiction and, therefore, structurally unidentifiable with the existential structure of all existence in general. According to the structural laws that comprise existence itself, once an event, perception, or emotion is identified by a subject as contradictory, it no longer has the structural ability to be identified with that subject’s existence as all existential self-contradiction is the structural antithesis of existence itself and, therefore, unidentifiable with same. One must keep in mind that both the ego and the self are humankind’s most characteristic representatives of existence and, therefore, any object or event that contradicts the structure of that existence inexorably will constitute a self-contradiction. All existence is and must be relational, progressive, and confirming. Any object or event, therefore, which does not conform with such necessary attribute will, inexorably, constitute an existential self-contradiction and, therefore, will no longer be identifiable with that particular existence. The reason why contradiction has the possibility, at all, of being perceived as pertaining to a subject’s ego is exclusively due to that subject’s ability to realize that once a contradiction has been identified, that subject is no longer truly able to identify with it. When a subject exclaims, “Yes, I made that mistake,” they correctly sense that the person who made the mistake is no longer the same person they are when they admit having made it.

That which is examined from an existential perspective or that existential event which is examined from a psychological perspective.

• reality, existential: A condition of logical coincidence by which an object or event is found in a state of undeniable being. Confirming the existence of an object, be it through a virtual or concrete experience, affirms that object’s virtual or concrete reality.
• reality, psychological: The virtual or concrete perception of an object or event. Psychological realities may not coincide with object world realities, as all living subjects can only perceive objects and events from their own relational perspective.

See consciousness.

See abandonment.

• relationability, ego: That qualitative relational phenomenon which depicts an ego’s relational “ability” or capability to become relationally active or relationally be. Ego relationability is a purely qualitative phenomenon.
• relationability, self: That quantitative relational phenomenon that depicts an environment’s version of a subject’s relational value.

• relationship: That relational incident that associates a subject with any given object or event.
• relationship, concrete, actual: That relationship in which the object controls the activity of the relationship.
• relationship, virtual: That relationship in which the subject controls the activity of the relationship.

That human emotion created by a subject’s virtual or concrete sense of actual or impending loss of a significantly affirming object or event.

The emotional result created by an act of successful neutralization.

The environmental version or representation of a subject’s ego. Humankind’s perception of the self is the only indication he or she has of who they may be. The self is a pure environmental reality.

See guilt.

A structure of inter-dependent relational principals that guide the behavior of all living things. The structure of all living existence is self-evidently, relational, confirming, and continuing. Indeed, no living thing can exist unless it does so in continual confirming relationship with its object world or environment.

See: consciousness, sub

The psychological point of departure of a relationship.

That psycho-neurological activity in which a living species not only carries out ego-referenced comparisons between objects and events contained in its object world or environment but does so in relationship with the “self.”

An expression of any given object or event’s environmental relationability. Non-environmental objects and events may be relationally significant to the ego but have no measurable value. Non-environmental objects and events can, however, acquire environmental value once they are related to measurable environmental events.

See: neutralization.

The non-physical representation of an object or event.

The emotion resulting from a subject’s sense that it is environmentally able as well as responsible for resolving a contradictory event. Worry or concern can create any number of related human emotions, such as anxiety, fear, apprehension, and/or dread and distress.