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The shift of emotional hunger

(How we can better understand problematic human behavior)

 

Two basic psychological needs:

Humans don't just want to enjoy, they want to be noticed and, if possible, even admired. They like it even better to be envied. Because they want to be something special.

 

This is about two basic emotional needs. From an early age, people need both: they want to belong to their parents and later to human communities and fit in. On the other hand, they want to be an original, a unique and special person. Being able to connect with others and enjoy the feeling of belonging and, on the other hand, being able to distinguish oneself from others and want to be perceived in the individuality of one's own being is part of the basic psychological make-up of human beings.

 

In healthy childhood development, a person feels noticed by loving parents. As an infant, the child is to a certain extent the center of attention and the parents adjust their daily routine to the child's needs.

In the defiant phase, the young child can also demonstrate its otherness and willingness to be different to both parents, if they have a healthy emotional leeway, and live it out to a certain extent.  Nevertheless, the child's sense of belonging to these parents is not shaken.

The situation is different if, for example, a baby is left alone for a few weeks after birth because the mother has to return to another clinic for treatment immediately after giving birth due to her own illness.

 

Those who were denied these two fundamental experiences of belonging and being different as a child will spend their whole lives in an almost greedy search for recognition and thus for self-discovery, as well as for the opportunity to demonstrate their originality and thus their otherness in a particularly striking way. There are many reasons why this essential psychological hunger of a child has not been satisfied in a healthy and sufficient way.

 

The shift to a political, material or physical level

 

The problem becomes apparent later when this child develops a need to catch up as an adolescent or adult. The emotional shortfall in childhood can also manifest itself later in other areas of life, e.g. in marriage, at work or in leisure time.

 

While in the area of personal relationships, e.g. in the family, it manifests itself as a constant expectation towards other family members, in other areas of life it can be shifted to the structural, material or physical level. 

 

On the social level, this emotional hunger manifests itself

as greed for power and domination,

on the material level as greed,
as greed for luxury and economic bragging rights,

on the physical level as binge eating and alcohol addiction

or as a mania for thinness and beauty.

 

Manfred Hanglberger

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