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Conflict of experience: A categorization model for studying verbal interaction
Author(s) -
HARTMANN TERJE
Publication year - 1981
Publication title -
scandinavian journal of psychology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.743
H-Index - 72
eISSN - 1467-9450
pISSN - 0036-5564
DOI - 10.1111/j.1467-9450.1981.tb00396.x
Subject(s) - psychology , categorization , relation (database) , social psychology , order (exchange) , interpersonal interaction , nonverbal communication , cognitive psychology , epistemology , communication , computer science , philosophy , finance , database , economics
In order to describe communication between people, some new concepts are introduced. These are derived from a model using ‘conflict of experience’ as its main theoretical reference. Such conflict presumably occurs when different interpretations of “the same” reality confronts each other. How such a conflict is handled is seen as depending upon factors in the situation, and on motive states of the person. A dialogue from Ibsen's play “John Gabriel Borkman” is analyzed in terms of the model in order to demonstrate its possible fruitfulness for describing and understanding verbal interaction. Psychotherapeutic concepts are discussed in relation to the theoretical points of veiw presented.