ABSTRACT
This chapter presents an overview of Freud's post-Darwinian approach to mental mechanisms. The idea that the evolution of mental mechanisms arises from social interactive tactics implies that a principal organisational element in the pursuit of certain goals is to do with communication. Care eliciting, care giving, competitive seeking and co-operating are four distinct types of biosocial goals. Adler had a number of evolutionary assumptions and models of human nature, although he was significantly more interested in the importance of social interaction and education. The nervous system is the principal organ for the execution of competent social interactions. It is through the central nervous system (CNS) that the structural organisation for the execution of social acts exists. The basic structures of the brain can be investigated as a kind of phylogenetic history of meaning-making and inclusive fitness enactments. Affective brain systems are wired up to facial and postural controlling muscles.
