Structural analysis
Observations on spontaneous social activities show that, from time to time, people visibly change their body position, point of view, tone of voice, vocabulary, or even other aspects of their behaviors. These behavioral changes are often followed by emotional changes. These changes and differences can be called “ego states”.
Each individual seems to have a limited set of such ego states, and they should not be mistaken with roles, but they are philological realities.
This set of states can be grouped into the following categories:
