<abstract xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><p>For the study of the first year of life, Sander, Stern, and Gomez each chose the adult–infant relationship as the unit of analysis; they followed its development, respectively, in <italic>moments of meeting</italic>, in the <italic>proto-conversation</italic> and in the <italic>focus of attention</italic>. The authors explicitly refer to the Gestalt theory and support the need to interpret the behavior of the child as part of a wider context, as the experiences of <italic>a person in relation</italic> (<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="j_gth-2018-0015_ref_006_w2aab3b7b4b1b6b1ab1ab6Aa">Galli, 2010</xref>) since birth.</p></abstract>

For the study of the first year of life, Sander, Stern, and Gomez each chose the adult–infant relationship as the unit of analysis; they followed its development, respectively, in moments of meeting, in the proto-conversation and in the focus of attention. The authors explicitly refer to the Gestalt theory and support the need to interpret the behavior of the child as part of a wider context, as the experiences of a person in relation (Galli, 2010) since birth.

The Primary Intersubjectivity and the Gestalt Theory

Gestalt Theory

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For the study of the first year of life, Sander, Stern, and Gomez each chose the adult–infant relationship as the unit of analysis; they followed its...

The Primary Intersubjectivity and the Gestalt Theory

Published Online: Jul 17, 2018

Page range: 175 - 187

DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/gth-2018-0015

Keywords
Intersubjectivity, Moments of Meeting, Affect Attunement, Joint Attention, Gestalt Theory

© 2018 Anna Arfelli-Galli, published by Sciendo

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 3.0 License.

The Primary Intersubjectivity and the Gestalt Theory

Published Online: Jul 17, 2018

Page range: 175 - 187

DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/gth-2018-0015

KeywordsIntersubjectivity, Moments of Meeting, Affect Attunement, Joint Attention, Gestalt Theory

© 2018 Anna Arfelli-Galli, published by Sciendo

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 3.0 License.

Keywords
Intersubjectivity, Moments of Meeting, Affect Attunement, Joint Attention, Gestalt Theory