Auf der Suche nach einer Theorie der Begrenzung

The starting point for this article in the Journal of Psychodrama and Sociometry is the hypothesis that an increasingly exhausted society needs to think about boundaries. There are many reasons for this: Growth processes, for example, are limited by their own side effects and every development of the self requires alterity, by which it is nevertheless limited. A constructive dynamic between the self and the other can only develop in border areas that differentiate and separate as well as connect. The dynamics of these border spaces will be analysed in the next section. This is followed by the question of which principles can contribute to a theory of boundaries. Among other things, the art of not-being-able-to comes into view here, the interruption and the question of when something is enough. The article ends with reflections on psychodramatic practice, which represents a particularly suitable framework for dealing with boundary issues.