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A View of Their Own: Capturing the Egocentric View of Infants and Toddlers with Head-Mounted Cameras
Published on: October 5, 2018
Is the self of the infant preserved in the adult?
1Galeasgatan 22, 426 71 Västra Frölunda, Sweden. eva.mark@phil.gu.se
Abstract:
What does a confrontation between philosophy and psychoanalysis look like? My task is a philosophical investigation of a psychoanalytic concept. Thus, I offer a conceptual analysis of a concept that is used both clinically and as a part of a metapsychology. The concept that I investigate in this article is regression. I work with the following two problems: What does a conceptual analysis of the phenomenon called "regression" look like? Regression can be regarded as an instrument that can give us knowledge about ourselves. What does this mean? I compare two ways of analyzing regression, an atomistic as well as an holistic approach. This comparison is made by way of a discussion of the conceptual analysis of the infant. Can we construct the inner life of the infant? How should we conceptualize the primitive? Using concepts like 'conceptual holism' and 'holism of attributes', I draw parallell conclusions about the construction of the infant's inner life and the analysis of the concept of regression.
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