Embodied mentalization and selfhood: Commentary on "Mentalizing homeostasis: The social origins of interoceptive inference" by Fotopoulou and Tsakiris. Issue 1 (2nd January 2017)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Zahavi, Dan; Rochat, Philippe
• Is Part Of: Neuropsychoanalysis. Volume 19:Issue 1(2017)
• Page Start: 67
• Page End: 69
• Publication Date: 2017-01-02
• Subjects: mentalization -- interpersonal exchange -- embodied interaction -- selfhood -- development -- phenomenology -- self-awareness; Psychoanalysis -- Periodicals; Neurosciences -- Periodicals; Neuropsychology -- Periodicals; 616.8
• DOI: 10.1080/15294145.2017.1295219
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 1529-4145

Abstract

Abstract : In our brief comment, we discuss whether Fotopolou and Tsakiris' article pays sufficient attention to development and to the way in which self-awareness and intersubjectivity influence each other. We raise questions about whether their position is able to accommodate something akin to a Gibsonian ecological self, and finally point to some ambiguities in their proposed account of the relation between embodied interaction and subjectivity