Transitions of bonding: The borders between hidden roots and visible roads in life course
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2020
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17 p.
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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).
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Integrative Psychological and Behavioral Science (2020)
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Transition, Transgeneration, Indeterminacy, Parenting, Couples