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Ontological Completion in the Adult-Infant System
- Source :
- PsyArXiv Preprints
- Publication Year :
- 2018
- Publisher :
- Center for Open Science, 2018.
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Abstract
- In this paper I explore the ontology of the mother-infant system to define moments of physiological and psychological co-operation that form one entity for the completion of ‘units of process’. These moments of coupling between mother and infant form ontological wholes with shared consciousness. For example, in the case of extreme, acute neonatal anxiety a process is initiated by the infant requiring co-regulation with an adult other. The adult other provides closure to the process of anxiety, giving ontological completeness to the process. This process of initiation, build, climax, and closure is illustrated by the infant’s vocal cry, which parallels the regulatory process. The need for another in this particular processual unit demonstrates the infant in this event is not a distinct entity, but is embedded in a parent-infant system that together forms one unified whole.
- Subjects :
- RJ101
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Process ontology
PsyArXiv|Social and Behavioral Sciences|Developmental Psychology
medicine
Mother infant dyad
bepress|Social and Behavioral Sciences|Psychology|Child Psychology
PsyArXiv|Social and Behavioral Sciences|Developmental Psychology|Infancy
bepress|Social and Behavioral Sciences|Psychology|Developmental Psychology
Parallels
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Cognitive science
bepress|Social and Behavioral Sciences|Psychology
PsyArXiv|Social and Behavioral Sciences|Theory and Philosophy of Science
PsyArXiv|Social and Behavioral Sciences
PsyArXiv|Social and Behavioral Sciences|Psychology, other
bepress|Social and Behavioral Sciences
Ontology
Anxiety
bepress|Social and Behavioral Sciences|Psychology|Theory and Philosophy
Consciousness
medicine.symptom
PsyArXiv|Social and Behavioral Sciences|Emotion
Completeness (statistics)
Psychology
Intersubjectivity
Subjects
Details
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- PsyArXiv Preprints
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi.dedup.....6cbe62d5c54457c0e5154d07776b7c91