Exteropsyche
The term Exteropsyche was coined by Eric Brene, while talking of transactional analysis. Berne (1950) purport human relationships as repetitive sets of social maneuvers that serve a defensive function and yield important gratifications. Such maneuvers take the form of “pastimes” or “games” that people play. These can be simple stunts, or they can be elaborate exercises that follow an unconscious life plan or “script.”
Manifested in all persons are three different “ego states”: first, the child within the person, a regressive relic of the individual’s archaic past, hence an aspect of his or her “archaeopsyche”; second, the external parental agency (parent), whom the person has incorporated through identification, the “exteropsyche”; third, the grown-up, mature, reasonable “data-processing” adult self, the “neopsyche.” Each of these aspects of the person perceives reality differently: the child part is perceived pre-logically and distortedly; the parent part, judgmentally; the adult part, comprehensively on the basis of past experience.