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The basic scientific unit of Transactional Analysis is the transaction, defined as follows:
The unit of social intercourse is called a transaction. If two or more people encounter each other … sooner or later one of them will speak, or give some other indication of acknowledging the presence of the others. This is called the transactional stimulus. Another person will then say or do something which is in some way related to the stimulus, and that is called the transactional response.
Attention is on the transaction rather than on past history or character structure per se. Language used is not id, ego and superego but “child,” “adult” and “parent.”