Basic trust
Basic trust is the deepest and ultimate human ability to trust and can only be shaken with difficulty. In existential analysis, trust is defined as consent to abandon oneself to a holding body to overcome a risk or uncertainty. Prerequisites for this are courage on the part of the person and mediation of support on the part of the property.
definition
Basic trust is an (unconsciously) performed act of letting oneself take the “last” hold - what has shown itself to be the reason for being. This is based on the experience that there is always something “there” that catches and gives support. Basic trust always refers to the experience that it always somehow goes on, and that existence is not groundless and always has a reason. The experience of the establishment of the ground of existence already occurs before birth (therefore no restriction to an imprinting phase in the first year of life) and throughout life. The lack of deep trust in the last hold behind all singular experiences leads to existential feelings of lack of insecurity, fear, and closeness with their corresponding coping reactions .
Types of basic trust
- Self-confidence: also self-loyalty - stand by yourself; Urmut - experience of the never-ending “source of strength life”; Primordial potency - existence is always already a skill, that is, a final ability to trust in oneself.
- World trust : Basic trust and original loyalty (people who have unconditionally adhered to one in vital times, original experience of being cared for); Structural trust - “it will go on”, also understand each other in a structure that is planned for one (devotion to fate).
- transcendental trust: trust in something that supports this world (faith).
literature
- EH Erikson: Childhood and Society. Northon, New York 1950.
- Regina Geitner: Basic trust in the decision of the family doctor. In: Deutsches Ärzteblatt. No. 108, 2011, pp. A520-A522.