Looking into the World with Transformed Eyes: The Case of Forgiveness. Issue 3 (26th July 2022)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Del Rizzo, Francesca
• Is Part Of: Journal of constructivist psychology. Volume 35:Issue 3(2022)
• Page Start: 855
• Page End: 876
• Publication Date: 2022-07-26
• Subjects: Personal construct theory -- Periodicals; Constructivism (Psychology) -- Periodicals; 150.1985
• DOI: 10.1080/10720537.2020.1805064
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 1072-0537

Abstract

Abstract: In this paper I will elaborate on the topic of forgiveness seen from a Personal Construct Psychology point of view. I will define it as the choice and the act to subsume one's own and the other's point of view with a superordinate and comprehensive relational construction of "person". I will argue that this can be the consequence of the construction both of the forgiver's and of the forgiven's construction processes by a person who experienced guilt, anger, and sometimes shame and hostility transitions. Drawing particularly upon the account of a survivor of the Auschwitz concentration camp, Eva Kor, I will underline the transformative power of this process for the forgiver.