- Neoteny
Neoteny also concerns aspects of our behaviour which we would have inherited from our early years. Play, for example, which at the outset allows young children to learn, to interact, to communicate, and which also endures into adulthood, where we continue to practise and to love play. Moreover, in his scientific and artistic research, the human being keeps a good measure of the playful in his activities.
- Procedural memory, or the memory of movement
Riding a bicycle, swimming, holding a fork, and so on. Discover how our repetitive procedures and all our everyday habits are stored in our memory.
- The instinct of self-preservation
The instinct that drives a living being to struggle for its existence when that existence is threatened.
- Atelophobia
The fear of imperfection and of not being equal to the task. Lacking self-confidence, the person worries constantly about not being good enough, about never being quite good enough.