title: THE DIALOGICAL SELF IN PSYCHOANALYSIS.
abstract: This paper describes the shift that appears to be taking place in contemporary psychoanalysis, as reflected among intersubjective approaches, from a monological conception of the self to a dialogical one. The monological self emphasizes the separation between mind, body, and external world, focusing on the representational and descriptive/referential function of language. In contrast, the dialogical self emphasizes practices, the permeable nature of relationships between subjects, and the constitutive function of language. This paper attempts to explain the growing emphasis on the dialogical self, understood from a theoretical, metatheoretical, and technical point of view, using contemporary intersubjective approaches to illustrate this shift.
authors.affiliation: Psychoanalyst and a member of the Argentine Psychoanalytic Association; he holds a research position at Universidad de Belgrano, Buenos Aires, Argentina, and CONICET (Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas).. felipejmuller@gmail.com.
authors.forename: Felipe
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Muller
mesh_terms: D003142:Communication; D004532:Ego; D006801:Humans; D011572:Psychoanalysis; D011574:Psychoanalytic Theory; D012649:Self Concept
keywords: Freud; Monological versus dialogical; analytic relationship; analytic third; body-mind relationship; in between space; intersubjectivity; language; object relations; potential space; rhythmicity; self; subject-subject versus subject-object