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The transcendent function in adolescence: miracle cures and bogeymen
Author(s) -
Rytovaara Marica
Publication year - 2010
Publication title -
journal of analytical psychology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.285
H-Index - 23
eISSN - 1468-5922
pISSN - 0021-8774
DOI - 10.1111/j.1468-5922.2010.01836_3.x
Subject(s) - miracle , transformative learning , symbol (formal) , proposition , psychology , stern , psychoanalysis , consciousness , function (biology) , developmental psychology , social psychology , epistemology , philosophy , history , theology , linguistics , ancient history , neuroscience , evolutionary biology , biology
: This paper proposes that Damasio's mental images, Stern's moments of meeting and Tronick's dyadically expanded consciousness refer to different aspects of the same psychological process as Jung describes in the transcendent function. This proposition is illustrated with two case vignettes of adolescents who functioned on a pre‐symbolic level, but who through a transformative experience were catapulted into new developmental trajectories and the beginning of symbol formation.