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Volume 3 Number 1
Fall 2008
| Voices of
Self in the Therapeutic Chronotope: Utushi and Ma Masayoshi Morioka Kobe University, Japan |
pp. 93-108 |
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ABSTRACT. The boundary
zone between self and other in the therapeutic conversation has an
essential characteristic
where meaning is constructed and re-constructed. In this paper the author discussed about
the
peculiarity of new
meaning making in therapeutic conversation from the view point of two
forms of dialogicality—the
sequential and the simultaneous. In the space of Dialogical Self, there
is
continuous conversation from self to self. When
one creates such self-talk, a distance will appear between voices of
the self. The
sense of tonus, the changing process of tension felt in the dialogue
occurs
basically from the dynamism of self-to-self and self-to-the-other
relation. The
author introduced a Japanese cultural concept utushi
and ma
in order to evoke further discussion of the meaning making process and
the
construction of therapeutic chronotope. |
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Keywords: utushi, ma, tonus,
chronotope, therapy, tension |
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