Proper time (sociology)

Eigenzeit is a term in the sociology of time with direct connections to biology and psychology . It expresses that processes in nature and thus also in humans take place within certain time periods and need a certain duration.

Processes in nature, such as growth or change, take a certain amount of time. This also applies to people and, with regard to learning processes , means that learning phases also take place in periods of time that e.g. B. Allow understanding , play , be creative and even apply what you have learned. In nature there are fewer linear time models than developments that work in rhythms and cycles . Many developments are opposed to other regulatory developments , e.g. B. times of growth and flowering are also juxtaposed with phases of decline and death. Achievement is followed by phases of regeneration or reproduction . Genetic reasons are usually sensitive phases in living beings in which developments are possible at all.

Human needs work towards their satisfaction, which is a starting point of Gestalt therapy : The emergence of a need until it is satisfied creates a shape . Therapy is therefore about keeping these processes flowing according to the motto Don't push the river . The contact cycle and possible disturbances with Alfred Zinker are clearly shown, where needs come into the focus of attention , forces are mobilized, an active action occurs (compare also appetite behavior ) and fulfilled again through contact with self and the environment Background step.

Proper times collide with economic interests and the belief in progress , where maximum increases in productivity and the associated speed are desired. In turbo-capitalism , a more linear time model with exponential growth is used and established structures and the pace of the financial market and machine production ignore proper times in the worst case. Time management can then misdirect as a pure increase in effectiveness and consequently cause burnout or depression . Even multitasking reached its limits. Time researchers like Karlheinz Geißler or Fritz Reheis are therefore calling for today's society to slow down .

See also

• Time sovereignty
• Time prosperity

literature

• Karlheinz Geißler : Living time - from rushing and resting, working and learning, living and dying . Berlin 1993. ISBN 978-3-88679-800-1 .
• Florian Opitz : Speed ​​- In search of lost time . 2012. ISBN 978-3-442-15771-6 .
• Fritz Reheis : The creativity of slowness. New prosperity through slowing down . Scientific Book Society, Darmstadt 1996. ISBN 3-534-80191-1 .

Individual evidence

1. ↑ z. B. Fritz Perls : The I, the hunger and the aggression. The beginnings of Gestalt therapy . 1969.
2. ^ Joseph Zinker: Gestalt therapy as a creative process . Paderborn 1993. p. 117.