scholarly journals Affects, Attunements and the Intersubjective Self: Perspectives from Early Development

2020 ◽  
Vol 31 ((1)) ◽  
Author(s):  
Stephen Seligman
Keyword(s):  
Early Development ◽  
Projective Identification ◽  
The Self ◽  
Intersubjective Self ◽  
Affect Attunement ◽  
Point Of Departure ◽  
Infant Observation

This paper conceptualizes the self and related concepts so as to emphasize interrelatedness rather than autonomy. From this view of a subject embedded in relationships as a point of departure, it then critiques and restates certain analyticallyoriented concepts so as to render them in a more fully intersubjective frame: “affect attunement” (Stern, 1985), “mirroring” (Kohut, 1977), empathy, and projective identification. This approach draws on drawing on the infant observation research that has emerged in recent decades.

From Container to Claustrum: Projective Identification in Couples

2014 ◽  
Vol 4 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Tamara Feldman
Keyword(s):  
Psychological Health ◽  
Projective Identification ◽  
The Self ◽  
The Other ◽  
Intimate Partners ◽  
And Control ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
As If

This paper is a contribution to the growing literature on the role of projective identification in understanding couples' dynamics. Projective identification as a defence is well suited to couples, as intimate partners provide an ideal location to deposit unwanted parts of the self. This paper illustrates how projective identification functions differently depending on the psychological health of the couple. It elucidates how healthier couples use projective identification more as a form of communication, whereas disturbed couples are inclined to employ it to invade and control the other, as captured by Meltzer's concept of "intrusive identification". These different uses of projective identification affect couples' capacities to provide what Bion called "containment". In disturbed couples, partners serve as what Meltzer termed "claustrums" whereby projections are not contained, but imprisoned or entombed in the other. Applying the concept of claustrum helps illuminate common feelings these couples express, such as feeling suffocated, stifled, trapped, held hostage, or feeling as if the relationship is killing them. Finally, this paper presents treatment challenges in working with more disturbed couples.

Ancient and Modern Practices of Citizenship in Asia and the West

2018 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Everyday Life ◽  
The Self ◽  
First Century ◽  
Care Of The Self ◽  
The West ◽  
City Life ◽  
Good Citizen ◽  
The Past ◽  
Twenty First Century ◽  
Point Of Departure

What does it mean to be a good citizen today? What are practices of citizenship? And what can we learn from the past about these practices to better engage in city life in the twenty-first century? Ancient and Modern Practices of Citizenship in Asia and the West: Care of the Self is a collection of papers that examine these questions. The contributors come from a variety of different disciplines, including architecture, urbanism, philosophy, and history, and their essays make comparative examinations of the practices of citizenship from the ancient world to the present day in both the East and the West. The papers’ comparative approaches, between East and West, and ancient and modern, leads to a greater understanding of the challenges facing citizens in the urbanized twenty-first century, and by looking at past examples, suggests ways of addressing them. While the book’s point of departure is philosophical, its key aim is to examine how philosophy can be applied to everyday life for the betterment of citizens in cities not just in Asia and the West but everywhere.

Big stories co-constructed

2010 ◽  
Vol 20 (2) ◽  
pp. 274-295 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sarah Helsig
Keyword(s):  
Narrative Research ◽  
The Self ◽  
Self Reflection ◽  
Analytical Point ◽  
Research Interviews ◽  
Small Story ◽  
Methodological Procedures ◽  
Point Of Departure

Tying up to previous narrative work that is concerned with the interrelations between big story and small story research (Bamberg, 2006; Freeman, 2006; Georgakopoulou, 2006b), this article aims to demonstrate that big story research can profit from methodological procedures that understand narrative research interviews as interactional encounters and positions assigned to the narrator during this encounter as impinging on the biographic accounts they deliver. For that purpose, I take the interaction between the interviewer and the interviewee — both before and during the actual interview — as an analytical point of departure and argue that the self-constructions that narrators undertake when engaging in (auto)biographic self-reflection have to and can only be understood against the background of this embedding interaction.

Introduction to Volume 8

2016 ◽  
pp. 3-30
Author(s):  
Ann Horne
Keyword(s):  
Early Development ◽  
Scientific Method ◽  
The Self ◽  
Real Object ◽  
Patient Relationship ◽  
Key Concepts ◽  
Use Of An Object

The Introduction to Volume 8 elicits the key concepts Winnicott was developing in 1967-68, beginning in January 1967 with his talk on his own theories of development at the ‘52 Club, citing those who influenced him and those from whom he acquired ideas. The author proceeds to examine ‘The Use of an Object’, viewed by Claire Winnicott as the culmination of his thinking, a talk given at the NYPSI in November 1968. There is comment on Winnicott’s approach to observation and the scientific method, on culture and playing, and a fuller picture of friends and interests from the 1967 IPA conference. Failures in early development are explored but the main focus is the emergence of the self as real and the recognition of a real object that can be used (from ‘Mirror-role of mother and family’ to ‘The use of an object’) and the parallel between the early mother-infant relationship and the analyst-patient relationship. Thoughts on technique conclude the paper.

Fantasy Control

2019 ◽  
pp. 227-249
Author(s):  
Ulrik Volgsten
Keyword(s):  
Social Interaction ◽  
Theoretical Perspectives ◽  
Affect Attunement ◽  
Point Of Departure ◽  
The Way

Ulrik Volgsten focuses on the control of sonic imagination in general and takes as his point of departure a discussion on how imagination is reflected in a number of theoretical perspectives. The author proceeds to supplement these perspectives with the dimension of social interaction and its role in paving the way for “an emerging sense of music” uncovering two different modes of connection: metaphorical projection and affect attunement. Additionally, Volgsten discusses how the three thematically distinct aspects of imagination (musical archives, places and contexts, and identifications) are distributed and concludes with a brief case study on a Kurdish cultural association, exemplifying different ways in which imagination can be controlled, for better or for worse.

Ekshibitionistiske selvudslettelser. Autoreception og genskrivning hos Jørgen Leth og clausbeck-nielsen.net

2010 ◽  
Vol 25 (63) ◽  
Author(s):  
Stefan Iversen
Keyword(s):  
The Self ◽  
Main Argument ◽  
Work Of Art ◽  
Point Of Departure ◽  
Scandinavian Literature

Stefan Iversen: “Exhibitionistic Erasures of the Self: Autoreception and Re-writing in Works by Jørgen Leth and clausbeck-nielsen.net”Taking its point of departure in the observation that recent Scandinavian literature and art have seen an increase in the number of works dealing with transgressions of the divide between the work of art as an autonomous entity and the artist as a concrete individual, this article sets out to investigate what it terms ‘autoreception’ and ‘rewriting’ in two already canonical works by Jørgen Leth and clausbeck-nielsen.net. The main argument is that not only are these two works composed by using a rewriting strategy, they also draw a lot of their highly original aesthetic and ethic impetus from it.

scholarly journals Endlessly Responsible: Ethics as First Philosophy in Stanley Cavell’s Invocation of Literature

Humanities ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 8 (2) ◽  
pp. 114
Author(s):  
Mette Blok
Keyword(s):  
Emmanuel Levinas ◽  
The Self ◽  
The Other ◽  
Early Writing ◽  
Ethics And Literature ◽  
Shakespearean Tragedy ◽  
Two Sides ◽  
Point Of Departure ◽  
Epistemological Skepticism ◽  
First Philosophy

This essay aims to give an overview of the topic ethics and literature in Stanley Cavell’s complete oeuvre. It argues that Cavell’s preoccupation with literature is, from beginning to end, primarily ethical, even though he takes his point of departure in epistemological skepticism. Recent research on the affinities between Cavell’s early writing on Shakespearean tragedy and the ethics of Emmanuel Levinas has helped to establish this but the question of how this part of Cavell’s work is related to his later development of Emersonian perfectionism is rarely touched upon. Consequently, this essay further argues that skepticism and perfectionism in Cavell’s thinking are two sides of one and the same ethics, which are bound together by the genre of romanticism. While Cavell’s work on skepticism is primarily concerned with the other, his work on perfectionism is primarily concerned with the self. Finally, this essay marks the point where Cavell’s and Levinas’ overall thinking part ways due to the fact that Cavell embraces Emersonian perfectionism.

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