Emotional Phenomenology and Relationality: Forever the Twain Shall Meet

For more than four decades, George Atwood and I have been absorbed in rethinking psychoanalysis as a form of phenomenological inquiry. In the course of this work, I repeatedly made the claim that phenomenology led us inexorably to relationality, but until now I did not offer an explanation of this i...

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Published in:Psychoanalytic inquiry 2019-02, Vol.39 (2), p.123-126
Main Author: Stolorow, Robert D.
Format: Article
Language:English
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Phenomenology
Psychoanalysis
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Summary:For more than four decades, George Atwood and I have been absorbed in rethinking psychoanalysis as a form of phenomenological inquiry. In the course of this work, I repeatedly made the claim that phenomenology led us inexorably to relationality, but until now I did not offer an explanation of this inexorability. In this article, I show that emotional phenomenology and relationality always already form an indissoluble unity, because relationality is constitutive of emotional experience.
ISSN:0735-1690
1940-9133
DOI:10.1080/07351690.2019.1561126