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Needing to prove to our bosses or lecterurers?

  • 11-05-2013 10:10pm
    #1
    upncmnhistori
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 234 ✭✭


    I am just interested in the psychology of this but I am open to correction if it isn't psychology but why do some of us get this 'need' to prove ourselves to our bosses or lecturers we like? Like I had different bosses throughout the past couple of years some fine others crap (nothing worse than the clueless boss). I noticed with ones a person likes we feel we have to 'prove' ourselves. Is it
    a logical response or an emotional one? Just asking the question I know its random.


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  • #2
    Odysseus
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,754 ✭✭✭Odysseus


    Have you look at the concept of transference?


  • #3
    upncmnhistori
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 234 ✭✭upncmnhistori


    Thank you http://www.freudfile.org/psychoanalysis/transference.html voila.


  • #4
    Odysseus
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,754 ✭✭✭Odysseus


    Does that make sense to you? Is there anyting more specific about the relationship betweem employer and employee that interests you?

    I always find it very useful to look at the group psychology in the different clinics I work in and the effects of different groups on the relationship in that environment; if that makes sense.


  • #5
    Odysseus
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,754 ✭✭✭Odysseus


    As an after thought, he is a link to a paper on organisation psychology which may help http://web.archive.org/web/200503071...l/bracher.html

    I find this a very useful paper and it is on a reading list for a professional development/reading group in the HSE that I am part of. Anyway hope it helps.


  • #6
    upncmnhistori
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 234 ✭✭upncmnhistori


    Great thank you very much. I am just curious to understand certain aspects of psychology espically the 'need' to 'prove ourselves' to others.


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  • #7
    JuliusCaesar
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,885 ✭✭✭JuliusCaesar


    It may be as simple as a need for approval, which most people have in some extent. We are, after all, a social species. When it becomes a paramount need, it interferes with the ability to live your own life as you would like.


  • #8
    Lbeard
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 311 ✭✭Lbeard


    JuliusCaesar wrote: »
    It may be as simple as a need for approval, which most people have in some extent.

    Do you mean the bosses need for approval?
    We are, after all, a social species.

    That could mean a lot of different things.
    When it becomes a paramount need,

    The need to cling onto your job.
    it interferes with the ability to live your own life as you would like.

    When you find yourself leading a punishing existence for others, with no space for your own being. Is it any wonder so many people suffer from depression and anxiety.


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