Esprit dialogique, sous-personnalités et positions du soi

Esprit dialogique, sous-personnalités et positions du soi.

“ Once we turn our attention to them, we will find many subpersonalities in each of us. Some are typical, some are practically unique. Students and clients have identified hundreds: The Hag, The Mystic, The Materialist, The Idealist, The Claw, The Pillar Of Strength, The Sneak, The Religious Fanatic, The Sensitive Listener, The Crusader, The Doubter, The Grabbie, The Frightened Child, The Poisoner, The Struggler, The Tester, The Shining Light, The Bitch Goddess, The Great High Gluck, The Dummy, to name a few.”

James Vargiu, Subpersonalities and psychotherapy, 1974

“ The question of whether there are parts of a person which can be talked to and worked with as if they were separate little personalities with a will of their own is one which has fascinated nearly everyone who has had to work with people in any depth.

Phrases like - "On the one hand I want to... on the other hand I don't", "I don't know how I could have done it", "It was as if a voice was telling me off" - are so common that they inevitably give a counsellor or therapist the cue that more than one system is at work. Internalised mothers and fathers are so common that it has almost become a joke. All these are examples of ways in which the idea of I-positions presents itself very patently and obviously. ”

John Rowan, Personification, 2010

* Sub-personality : Partie de la personnalité : autonome, temporaire, contextuelle. Comportement appris en réaction à un contexte psychosocial. Théorie d'une multiplicité psychique ; (Janet, Jung, Assagioli, Federn, Vargiu, Rowan, …)

* I-positions :

* Dialogical self : Positions ou configurations du “soi”, autonomes. Concept qui supprime une réification des sous-personnalités Réunit l'unité et la multiplicité psychique.

(H. Hermans)

Capacité de relation et de dialogue entre différentes parties de soi. Le “soi” comme multiplicité dynamique de “positions du moi” (W. James, Hubert Hermans, J. Rowan … )

* Esprit dialogique : Proposition de vocable pour ce cours. Même principe, sans notion d'un “soi” et d'un “moi”.