The aesthetic and affective matrix of pre-reflective sensemaking at the origins of the relationship between subject and world: A dialogue between Kant’s Third Critique and psychoanalysis

• Published in: International journal of psychoanalysis Vol. 105; no. 2; pp. 169 - 191
• Main Authors: Tossici, Giulia, De Luca Picione, Raffaele
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: England Taylor & Francis Ltd 01.04.2024
• Subjects: Affect; Affective experiences; Elaboration; Esthetics; Fiction; Humans; Psychoanalysis; Psychoanalytic Theory; Sensemaking; Trust - psychology; Uncertainty; psychoanalytical transitionality; pre-reflectivity; fictionality; intersubjectivity; aesthetics; Affects

The authors discuss the relevance of aesthetic and affective experience at the heart of the human being's capability to relate to the world and to found relations of sense. Faced with anguish that the world can be meaningless and with fear of uncertainty/chaos, trust and hope are needed for the...