Relational Theories of Encounters and the Relational Subject

2021 ◽  
Vol 42 (1) ◽  
pp. 99-113
Author(s):  
Rebecca Buys ◽  
Vince Marotta
Keyword(s):  
Relational Theories

Terapia della Gestalt, psicoanalisi moderna e infant research: considerazioni sul tema

2009 ◽  
pp. 61-74
Author(s):  
Bernd Bocian
Keyword(s):  
Key Words ◽  
Gestalt Therapy ◽  
Evolutionary Models ◽  
Infant Research ◽  
Social Nature ◽  
The Social ◽  
Object Relational ◽  
Relational Theories ◽  
Daniel Stern

- The author, a German psychotherapist, takes into account similarities between gestalt therapy, object relational theories and infant research. He explores in particular similarities between object relational theories and the therapeutical work of Fritz Perls. In this context the autor discusses concepts like "internal theatre", the therapist as an "additional" other and the contribution of gestalt therapy to the work with the phenomenon of splitting. Bocian then explores the possibles overlaps between the evolutionary models of gestaltpsychology and gestalt therapy with that one of theorists of the infant resarch - in particolar of Daniel Stern - that are realised in the acknowledgment of the social nature of the child and his interaction with the mother.Key words: contemporary psychoanalysis, object relational theories, "additional" other, "internal theatre", splitting, development, infant research.Parole chiave: psicoanalisi contemporanea, teorie delle relazioni oggettuali, altro supplementare, "teatro interno", scissione, sviluppo, /infant research/.

Making Epistemologists Nervous: Relational Memory and Psychological Individualism

Hypatia ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 34 (3) ◽  
pp. 405-423
Author(s):  
Rockney Jacobsen
Keyword(s):  
Relational Theory ◽  
Relational Memory ◽  
The Past ◽  
Political Conception ◽  
Relational Theories ◽  
Political Dimensions

We cannot rethink the ethical and political dimensions of memory—especially its role in constituting persons and identities—without rethinking the nature of memory itself. I first describe a traditional epistemological view of memory, according to which memory is a faculty for preserving knowledge of the past, and then juxtapose a relational theory of memory developed by Sue Campbell. The relational theory is represented in terms of a distinction between actions and achievements; this distinction enables us to both clarify and defend the shift from an epistemological to a political conception of memory. On the resulting view, accuracy, not truth, is the appropriate norm for evaluating memory, and remembering is no longer conceived as an interior process. In the penultimate section I confront an objection to a relational theory of memory—and to relational theories of cognition generally—and suggest a strategy of response.

scholarly journals Venice in Varanasi: Fluid landscapes, aesthetic encounters and the unexpected geographies of tourist representation

2021 ◽  
Vol 15 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Cristiana Zara
Keyword(s):  
Empirical Analysis ◽  
Travel Narratives ◽  
Tourist Destination ◽  
Research Project ◽  
Aesthetic Experiences ◽  
The World ◽  
Relational Theories

This article has developed from a broader research project on tourist representations and practices in Varanasi, India’s renowned sacred city and popular tourist destination situated by the ‘holy’ Ganges. Here, a recurring ‘sense of Venice’ emerged from Western travel narratives and landscape representations, evoked by both visual and more- than-visual encounters. Drawing on cultural geographies of landscape engaging postcolonial, representational and non-representational theories, the article unravels Venice’s capacity to exist beyond Venice and to mobilise affectual aesthetic connections across different social, material, spatial and temporal contexts. Through an empirical analysis of aesthetic experiences of ‘Venice-in-Varanasi’, it illuminates the ontological liminality of Venice as waterland and image and its epistemological capacity to navigate the entangled material, affective and representational modes through which we encounter the world. Advancing relational theories of landscape via an empirical focus on the waterscapes of Venice and Varanasi, the article contributes to water studies and critical tourism by proposing a fluid and mobile ontology of landscape which seeks to destabilise the representational/non-representational binary, thus feeding into growing research in this direction.

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