https://doi.org/10.4081/rp.2020.211

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

Vol. 31 No. 1 (2020)
Published: June 16, 2020
Self, affect attunement, intersubjectivity, empathy, projective identification, mirroring
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Stephen Seligman
stephen.seligman331@gmail.com
Clinical Professor of Psychiatry, University of California, San Francisco; Joint Editorin- Chief, Psychoanalytic Dialogues; Training and Supervising Analyst, San Francisco Center for Psychoanalysis and Psychoanalytic Institute of Northern California, United States.

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.

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Seligman, S. (2020). Affects, Attunements and the Intersubjective Self: Perspectives from Early Development. Ricerca Psicoanalitica, 31(1). https://doi.org/10.4081/rp.2020.211

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