Representation, Interaction, and Intersubjectivity

Representation, Interaction, and Intersubjectivity

What the participants share, their common "sense" of the world, creates a foundation, a framing, an orientation that enables human actors to see and act in coordination with one another. For recurrent activities, the methods the participants use to understand each other as they act change, making the intersubjective space in which actors operate richer and easier to produce. This article works ...

Focusing , Intersubjectivity , and “ Therapeutic Intersubjectivity ”

Vygotsky and intersubjectivity

Lev Vygotsky’s statement on the development of the higher psychological functions— from the interpsychological form to the intrapsychological form—is discussed in the article. I describe the changing of Vygotsky’s interest from nonverbal to verbal communication and his emphasis on verbal communication as an only kind of interpsychological function. I then analyze works that show the importance ...

Mirror neurons and intersubjectivity

Interaction and Representation