From the Conditions of Human Existence to Psychological Organisation: The Structural Derivation of the Relational Provision Model

Abstract

This foundational paper develops the Relational Provision Model (RPM) as an axiomatic-deductive, conditions-based model of psychological organisation. Its point of departure consists of two axioms of human existence: lifelong provision dependence and voluntary provision as the in-principle non-enforceability of existentially significant responses from others. From their structural interlocking, provision contingency is derived as a structural constant. For a provision-dependent system, provision contingency takes the shape of a danger form: the core danger nexus (Nukleus-Gefahrenverbund, NGV), from which a necessary response architecture is derived. At its centre stands separation anxiety: neither a product of learning nor a malfunction, but a signal that every psychological system must generate under these conditions. It is accompanied by two further anthropological functional constants: cognitive pre-tensioning (Kognitive Vorspannung, KV) and action pre-tensioning (Handlungsvorspannung, HV). Psychological energy appears not as the source of psychological movement but as the mobilisable activation effort continuously required to respond to this open condition. The paper is not an empirical theory of psychological mechanisms but a structurallogical derivation of the conditions under which psychological organisation becomes necessary. Its testability lies in the consequences derived from these axioms, to be developed and examined in subsequent work.