In the Flow of Experience: Genetic Phenomenology, Psychoanalysis, and the Pursuit of a New Subjectivity Model

The paper aims to interpret phenomenology and psychoanalysis as two theories of subjectivity. From the interaction between the findings of genetic phenomenology and the insights derived from psychoanalytic praxis and reflection, it is intended to outline a model of subjectivity alternative to the merely theoretical, clearly delimited, and essentially self-transparent subject presented by modern philosophy, naturalistic approaches and adopted by empirical psychology and naturalized human sciences. Thus emerges the image of a personal subject as a developmental process—originally intersubjectively structured and characterized by various forms of unconscious life.