title: Considerations on the precedence of the scenes, the contact barrier and the separation of conscious and unconscious.
abstract: In this essay the term 'scene' which has been developed in the German psychoanalytic discussion, is confronted with the terms 'total situation' and 'psychoanalytic field', showing common features as well as differences. Thereafter four child observations are presented, through which light is thrown onto the scenic structures which make the foundations of early experience. In the precedence of scenes those structures are omnipresent whereas subjectivity only gradually builds up. It is shown how the development of subjectivity and the differentiation of consciousness and unconscious go along with overcoming the precedence of scenes, by breaking them up and reorganizing them. Thus scenes can become metaphors, which are used for 'translating' experience and for building up the contact barrier.
authors.affiliation: Eppendorfer Landstrasse 161, D-20251, Hamburg.
authors.forename: Dietmut
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Niedecken
mesh_terms: D002648:Child; D006801:Humans; D019365:Metaphor; D011572:Psychoanalysis; D011574:Psychoanalytic Theory; D014473:Unconscious, Psychology
keywords: contact barrier; division between conscious and unconscious; field and scene; metaphor and symbol formation