Red Face and Grey and exploring TA

On Friday the clinical psychologist at work talked to me about transactional analysis. Ok, so its after Freud but I won't hold it against the process. Its about the parts of us that have been conditioned by our upbringing - parents, care givers, teachers, and our childhood responses to positive and negative experiences, and our current consciousness that mediates those internal dialogues and makes choices about how we react to things now. So there is a Child Ego, Adult Ego (us now) and Parent Ego. Sometimes we say something and go, "OMG that was my father talking!!" and we think to ourselves that we NEVER wanted to hear ourselves say such a thing, but we did it. We do have choices but its hard to work on our behaviours, awareness and responses. These transactions are taking place all the time and can be observed in the way we act at work with different types of people, or in relationships, communities and with mentors and everything else. So I am trying to learn something about this Transactional Analysis, because I am trying to face my own responses; emotional, rational and sometimes irrational, beliefs, and faith, and I am questioning how to move forward when faced with an abundance of 'quality' issues to wade through. 

Below are Red Face and Grey Face. Red Face is clearly not happy, however, above him is a quirky sun, who looks like he is not taking the big picture so seriously or possibly satirising Red Face. But Red Face cannot see the expression on the sun-like image's face. Child and Parent?.... And Grey Face is my teacher. This was the last image in the series, but its the only one I remember the order of. Quite sober, and fitting because he is a sober kind of person. The whole experience has been sobering, and sometimes I just wish for a bit of light hearted folly. "Balance" is the loud call from the Universe..."find balance Taraka". At least from a visual literacy point of view my work has a focal balance in colours, tones, and the placement of the imagery. I don't know about the content...if that is balanced or not...and certainly now I have a curiosity with Transactional Analysis, I will be looking inside to find out about my own responses to life being balanced or dictated by Child or Parent... or Adult. 

Red Face

Grey Face