Epistemic intersubjectivity in interactive psychoanalysis

Agrafa, V 6/2024  (стр. 88-119)

АУТОР(И) / AUTHOR(S): Svetlana Urošević

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DOI: https://doi.org/10.46793/Agrafa6.088U

САЖЕТАК / ABSTRACT:

In the framework of interactive psychoanalysis, the therapeutic process is based on a dialogic exploration of thinking that brings the possibility of cognitive and existential transformation. In interactive psychoanalysis, the analyst and the analysand become two phenomenologists, at the same time they are participants and observers in the analytical process. A similar theoretical approach is reflected in Merleau-Ponty’s philosophy of intersubjectivity, which proposes the possibility of overlapping and sharing of phenomena. The phenomenological aspect of interactive psychoanalysis also carries the analyst’s ethical responsibility to meet the other, where the meeting with the other through taking interactive positions is perceived as overcoming the individual experience and opening a relationship to the infinite possibilities of the other in a wider phenomenon. This otherness also depends on epistemic intersubjectivity, where all stages of the movement of thought can be considered as a development within presence itself. So, epistemic intersubjectivity is a concept that implies that knowledge and meanings are constituted through a mutual exchange between encounters like two consciousnesses sharing the same interactive position. Intersubjectivity is also an essential relationship between two consciousnesses, that is, an interactive relation in which the essence of a dialogue between two people is manifested through an epistemic transformation of thinking. Based on this, it follows that dialogue in an interactive position is a mode of intersubjective encounter.

КЉУЧНЕ РЕЧИ / KEYWORDS:

intersubjectivity, interactivity, interactive position, event horizon, epoché, critical reflection, epistemic transformation.

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