Transitions of bonding: The borders between hidden roots and visible roads in life course
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Transitions of bonding: The borders between hidden roots and visible roads in life course Maria Elisa Molina 1 # Springer Science+Business Media, LLC, part of Springer Nature 2020
Abstract The article explores the phenomenon of transition in a particular human passage, which entails two affective processes, the experience of parenting and the transformation of the couple’s bond. Transition is analyzed as a field of self-movements and transitionalfield-of-the-abject (Hermans and Hermans- Konopka 2010) where new self-positions are co-constructed around oneself and the relationship with ‘the other’ through sharing meanings. The article describes processes of abandoning self-positions, which entail spatial and temporal movements, opening up possibilities to build a conception towards a communal self. Transition is discussed in terms of the indeterminacy of expanding horizons (Boulanger International Journal for Dialogical Science, 10(2), 9–33, 2017a, International Journal for Dialogical Science, 10(2), 117–130, 2017b) where uncertainty and semiotic tension are the drives for life experience and self to evolve. The phenomenon defined as tensegrity (Marsico and Tateo Integrative Psychological Behavior, 51, 536–556, 2017) enables the process towards new meanings of self and the other. The article elaborates on the life-course addressing the dynamics of actual self-regulation and transgenerational resources as crossing axes (Canevaro 1999). Keywords Transition . Transgeneration . Indeterminacy . Parenting . Couples
* Maria Elisa Molina [email protected]
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Psychology Faculty, Universidad del Desarrollo, Santiago, Chile
Integr Psych Behav
“Roots and leaves themselves alone are these…. Love-buds put before you and within you whoever you are, Buds to be unfolded to old terms, If you bring the warmth of the sun to them they will open and bring form, color, perfume, to you, If you become the aliment and the wet they will become flowers, fruits, tall branches and trees.” Walt Whitman 2007, p. 258. The experience of change and transformations challenge the sense of stability of life. Life trajectories entail continuous cycles of stability-instability that people deal with by actively seeking for states, meanings and feelings of being deep-rooted. From that perspective, if we elaborate a just lived experience or a vital situation in progress as an experience of change or transformation in our lives we also will undergo feelings of surprise and of exceptional events. We usually live those moments having feelings of astonishment caused by unexpected events taken unawares. Transformation is inherent to the process of living in irreversible time but due to our delusion of stability it occurs unwarned most of the time. Probably that blindness explains the mechanistic understanding of transitions (see Boulanger 2017a) trying to distinguish between moments perceived as static objects and in the same way the difficulties to be aware of processes, like roots and leaves alone (Whitman 2007). In his poetry, Whitman manifests an oppositio
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