Feeling as movement from a person-centered standpoint: Going beyond William Stern

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Title:	Feeling as movement from a person-centered standpoint: Going beyond William Stern
Author(s):	Josephs, I.E.
Publication year:	2000
Source:	Theory & Psychology, vol. 10, iss. 6 [special, (2000), pp. 815-830
ISSN:	0959-3543
DOI:	https://doi.org/10.1177/0959354300106007
Publication type:	Article / Letter to editor
Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item : https://hdl.handle.net/2066/212880
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Subject:	Experimental Psychopathology and Treatment
Organization:	SW OZ BSI KLP
Journal title:	Theory & Psychology
Volume:	vol. 10
Issue:	iss. 6 [special
Page start:	p. 815
Page end:	p. 830
Abstract:	According to William Stem, psychological phenomena are only understandable in relation to a living and experiencing person. Stem defines the person as an open system which is related to the external world. However, the question how this relation between person and world can be conceptualized, specifically how person and world co-construct each other, needs further elaboration. In this paper, feeling is understood as the critical mediating process of the person-world relationship. It is shown how the world constrains the flow of feeling through semiotic devices, as, for example, feeling concepts and circumvention strategies. Yet the world does not strictly determine feeling and other psychological functions. It is always the person who actively reconstructs the world's suggestions in ongoing time, rather than simply taking them over or selecting them.