The life story of circus artists performing high-risk acrobatics and their inner dynamism

Abstract

The research was developed within the guidelines of transactional analysis and is a contribution that highlights the importance of the Life Argument. This plot, like a theatre script, is written on the basis of the Messages that parents send to their children at a very early age: either verbally or non-verbally and usually without them being aware of it. It is incredible how an eight-year-old child decides what his life will be like and what he will do with it. These early life mandates are of decisive importance in determining their storyline. When a child receives one or more messages (argumentative mandates) the ordinary response is to follow them through life, as a model, as a way of being caressed. Even when caresses from other people are available, those of parents or guardians are the most effective, because they are what the young child needs to survive. Adults are the key to the child's world, they are the ones who tell the child who he is. On the basis of the commands a child receives and his first decisions, he formulates his life plan or argument.