A relational perspective on the development of self and emotion

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Publication Type Journal Article
School or College College of Social & Behavioral Science
Department Psychology
Creator Fogel, Alan Dale
Title A relational perspective on the development of self and emotion
Date 2001
Description Begin with two premises. First, psychological experience always implies a connection, a relationship: with another person, with cultural tools or language, or with the natural environment. Life is a network of relationships. Second, psychological experience is always dynamic and changing. The simplest visual perception requires a change, either in a movement of the object or a movement of the eyes, head, or body. Thoughts and feelings fluctuate in a continuous pattern of change. These patterns of change themselves change as people develop. Life is a series of changes. On the other hand, part of psychological experience is a sense of one's uniqueness (the self) and a sense of one's permanence through time (identity). How can this occur? How can people have a sense of themselves and their stability over time if psychological experience is fundamentally relational and dynamic?
Type Text
Publisher Cambridge University Press
First Page 93
Last Page 114
Language eng
Bibliographic Citation Fogel, A. D. (2001). A relational perspective on the development of self and emotion in Identity and Emotion: development through self-organization edited by Harke A. Bosma and E. Saskia Kunnen, 93-114.
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