Relational Conversations on Meeting and Becoming: The Birth of a True Other

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Demonstrating a relational, dialogic way of thinking and writing, this book offers an innovative perspective on the human potential for intersubjective engagement and on the nature of true encounter. The authors engage in creative, associative dialogues and trialogues inspired by psychoanalysis and Buddhism, poetry and religion, theory and case studies, academic and free styles of writing – each enriching the other. Reflecting on the essence of relating, they convey a flow between inner, private reveries and shared ones, and between individual expressions of thought and evolvements of newly born thirds. Through this interdisciplinary, experimental setting, the authors explore the possibility to reach truths and meanings that each individual would not have achieved on their own. Offering new concepts and formulations that may nourish psychotherapists’ thought and be usefully implemented in their practice, this book presents a pressingly unique and essential viewpoint for psychoanalysts and psychoanalytic psychotherapists in training and in practice. Cover Endorsements Half Title Series Page Title Page Copyright Page Dedication Contents Acknowledgements List of Contributors Foreword PART I: First Dialogue: Creation and the True Other 1. The Birth of a True Other 2. Meeting the Ultimate Other: Allowing the Creation 3. In the Beginning There Was an Other First Associative Trialogue: I Call Out to You PART II: Second Dialogue: Becoming, Spaciousness and Vitality 4. Going on Being: On the Fear of Ceasing and the Need to Go On 5. Making Space for the Mess: The At-One-Ment of Going-On-Being 6. The Echo Chamber Is Not Empty: On Limitation and Vastness, Spaciousness and Nourishment Second Associative Trialogue: Is Truth a Testimonial Process?The Need for a Testimonial Other for the Reestablishment ofTruth and for Healing of Trauma Thinking Further: Trauma and Witnessing in the Contextof the Verbal and Non-verbal Messages of Society, and theRelational Nature of the World PART III: Third Dialogue: The Haiku Interpretation and the Chain of Caesuras 7. In the Blink of an Eye: The Minimalist Interpretation 8. And You Said Mmhmm 9. In a Few Words Third Associative Trialogue: On “No Experience” with All MyHeart and Soul Epilogue: The Clouds of Knowing Index