Anxiety, fury or total disinhibition. There are those who free their most “crazy” side at airports, but there are several explanations.
It may have already witnessed unusual and even antisocial behaviors at an airport or flight.
These may vary from harmless acts, such as sleep on the floor or do yoga in front of the flight information visualization system, even serious incidents, such as discussion Drunk early in the morning or even attempts to open the airplane’s doors in the middle of the flight.
These most claiming problems seem to have aggravated in recent years, with the Increased incidents of air fury and the deviations of flights.
These incidents led to appeals to reduce or even ban alcohol sales at airports and aircraft.
Ryanair, for example, called on to impose a two -drink limit on airport bars to end the drunken incidents.
But what does airports have to behave differently? The psychologist Explain, no.
Many tourists feel that the adventure begins at the airport, which puts them in a different state of mind than normal. They are eager to start their week or two of relaxation with a touch of glory.
Others, however, are anxious with the flightwhich can lead them to act strangely or to take refuge in alcohol. The noise and airport multitude do not help either.
As the field of environmental psychology has shown, humans are very sensitive to what surrounds them and can easily be “overloaded” by stress factors such as crowds and noise.
You also need to look at the airport from a psychogeographic perspective. THE psychogeography It studies the effect of places on people’s emotions and behavior, in particular in urban environments.
In Celtic cultures, there is a concept of “thin places” (“Ternuces” or “thin”, in a translation to the letter) – Often sacred woods or forests – where the veil between the material and the spiritual world is Ternue. In the “fianch places”, we are between two kingdoms, neither in a place nor in another.
In the modern technological world, airports can also be seen as “fresh places.” They are injunctions where borders fade. At a literal level, national borders dissolve. When we go through security, we enter no one, between countries. The concept of place becomes hazy.
In another direction, airports are an absence zone, where the present moment is not welcome. Everyone’s attention is facing the future, their flights, and the adventures that await them when they reach their destination.
This intense concentration in the future often brings frustrationespecially if the flights are late.
Personal boundaries also become fluid. In addition to antisocial behaviors, airports can be the scene of pro-social behaviors, in which strangers share their travel plans and on vacation, speaking with unusual intimacy.
No man’s land, normal social inhibitions do not apply. And alcohol can further lubricate this social cohesion.
Airports create a feeling of disorientation. We define ourselves in terms of time and place. We also define ourselves in terms of nationality. Without these markers, we can feel the drift.
Liberating effects
On the positive side, all this can have a liberating effect on some of us. Usually we see time as an enemy who steals the moments of our lives and oppresses us with deadlines. Therefore, leaving time is sometimes how to be released from prison.
Ultimately, whether we are anxious or released, we may end up acting outside our character.
According to the theories of the psychologist Sigmund Freudthis can be interpreted as a Change of our civilized ego Normal to the primitive and instinctive part of the psyche, which Freud called ID.
According to Freud, the ID It is the place of our desires and impulses, of our emotion and aggression, and requires immediate gratification. ID is usually kept under ego control, but it is always likely to let go, especially when our inhibitions are loosened by alcohol or drugs.
Outside normal restrictions, some tourists allow your ID to express themselves as soon as they go through security. And when they get drunk, ID dominates completely and is able to cause chaos.
