Specular Autonomy: An Interrelation between Self Image and Subjectivity in Situations of Psychological Distress

Authors: Lima TPS*

Volume 5, Issue 3

Abstract

This work presents the concept of Specular Autonomyi as a resource for understanding relationships that permeate the subjectivity of subjects with accentuated psychic conflicts. The analysis of phenomenological processes was made: the return to the subject’s experience and its descriptive analysis at the levels of lived experiences, such as the ones proposed in the perspective of the human person’s formation in Husserl’s and Stein’s phenomenology. The empirical study involved qualified listening and the application of the Significant Moduleii for the Drawing of the Human Figure. In the vital space that comprises the materials, the proposer and the participants, were observed resignifications in the specular imagery, as well as it was verified the Specular Autonomy in the alterity relations through potentialized subjective resources.

Keywords: Specular Autonomy; Identity; Alterity; Mental Health

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