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Alterity and the Theory of Positive Disintegration

Alterity and the Theory of Positive Disintegration. An Organizing Template. Purpose. Once again, TPD provides a beautiful organizing framework for a complex psychological state. Many definitions, all pulled together in a developmental sequence. Definitions of Alterity.

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Alterity and the Theory of Positive Disintegration

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  1. Alterity and the Theory of Positive Disintegration An Organizing Template

  2. Purpose • Once again, TPD provides a beautiful organizing framework for a complex psychological state. • Many definitions, all pulled together in a developmental sequence.

  3. Definitions of Alterity • State or quality of being other • Alterity not always “different” • Not always disparaged or silenced • Not always marginal • Alterity is part of symbolic reality

  4. Some Quotations • Autistic states • Radical Alterity • Fusion-Identification • Transcendent Alterity (Paradoxical Alterity)

  5. Psychology and Alterity • Mahler:Autism-Symbiosis-Rapprochement-Separation • Permeable-self-other (Object Relations) • Interpersonal Construction: Negotiated Cognition • Collective Unconscious • Phenomenological self, other(experienced self/other) • Positivist self, other(Measurable qualities only) • Self and other in the field of language(linguistic constructions)

  6. Philosophy and Alterity • Descartes • Hegel • Levinas • Pragmatists • Merleau-Ponty • Sartre

  7. Religion and Alterity • Mystical Core versus Container • Tat twam asi • Cloud of Unknowing • Atman • Pleroma

  8. Social Science and Alterity • Taussig • Kerttula • Joseph Carrier--De los Otros • The Social Management of Alterity • Marcuse-the Hamburg School • McLuhan

  9. Art and Alterity • Kafka • Nabokov –Invitation to an Execution • Double Life of Veronique • The Others • Movie with Words • Fat Girl • Samuel Beckett

  10. Theory of Positive Disintegration and Alterity: an Integration • Correspondence of different forms of alterity with levels of TPD • Pre differentiation-Differentiation-Post Differentiation • Diachronic and Synchronic process • Alterity and Emptiness

  11. Clinical Examples • INDIVIDUAL • Other as self, oneself as an other • Introjection/Projective Identification • Connection with the Collective Unconscious • Acceptance of Alterity-Separation Individuation • Transcendent Alterity: Synchronicity • Trauma as alteric

  12. GROUP • Roles and alterity • Work and alterity • Fusion and identification • Differentiation in families

  13. A Measure of Alterity • 29 items • N=109 • Factor Analysis • Factor 1: Disconnection---Connection • Cronbach alpha .78 • Correlates with Emptiness • Factor 2: People Unknowable---People Knowable

  14. Conclusion • Alterity complex • Many forms of Alterity • Again TPD works as a useful organizer of this concept, correlating different forms with different levels.

  15. Correspondences between forms of Alterity and TPD SELF OTHER I II III IV V TPD LEVELS Synchronic and Diachronic

  16. Self and Other: A Developmental Sequence Paradoxical Alterity Individuality” “ No self No Other Symbiosis Self Self Self Other Other Other S O Transcendent Alterity Intimations of Connection TPD Levels: I II III IV V

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