Larisa Bogachik-Volynets. Self becomes Dialogical in the Making of and by the Third

Larysa Bogachyk
The Head of the Research laboratory for psychoanalytic psychology of Kiev, Vice-President of the Center “Dialogue of cultures XXI”

Abstract

Keywords: self, dialogical self, dialogical relationships, the Third, addressnes

It is essential for aims of psychoanalyses (inner structural changes) to comprehend inner speech as the mechanism of such changes. Inner speech appears as Self and the mechanism of Self-forming. It is considered the phenomenology of Self-forming (Lakan’s, Klein’s psychoanalytical conceptions, Bibler’, Vygotsky’s ideas). Inner speech is described through relations developing in it, characteristics (partial, total, etc.) of participating objects.
Referring to inner speech as Self and mechanism of Self forming it is natural to comprehend Self as dialogical one. It develops as a result of relationships, is totally dependent on the Other. However, I find it necessary to differentiate such primary Self and the secondary Self, which understands itself as a consequence of relationships. Only the latter is really dialogical Self taking active position in relationships and thus changing them. The Bakhtin’s thought distinguishing between relationships and dialogical relationships is important here. Dialogical relationships presume the Third, ‘Above-Addressee’ (Bakhtin), ‘intersubjective analytical Third’ (Ogden), ‘Big Other’ (Lacan).
Self may resist to understanding itself as dialogical one, while keeping its wholeness. Addressness and self-identity conflict. This conflict turns into a fundamental feature of human Self in the space which is constituted by the Third where two intentions are in dialectical relations.