Author/Editor		Rutar, D
Title		Psihologija skoz psihoanalizo. 10. del. George Herbert Mead
Translated title		Psychology through psychoanalysis. Part 10. George Herbert Mead
Type		članek
Source		Anthropos
Vol. and No.		Letnik 27, št. 1-2
Publication year		1995
Volume		str. 39-53
Language		slo
Abstract		In the tenth of twelve metapsychological essays we've been elaborating the suppressed contribution of G. H. Mead to the psychology of subject. His theoretical contribution to the theory of subject was mainly in his warning that psychology, in order to understand the very object of its scientific project, should make a passage. The passage would be in leaving its fruitless ideas and models of the inner ego as an autonomous instance whose main function is to control the outside world. Psychology should also recognize, first, that there is an insurmountable gap between ego and subject, and, second, that this very gap is something internal which means, that the subject is the difference, and the ego is noting more than a set of unsuccessful attempts to patch the gap. Needless to say this is the way how he denies the conditions of his existence. The Mead's second great contribution to the psychology of subject was his step to the treshold of the concept of Big Other as the basic and common condition of human's existence. There is no subject without Big Other, and there is no ego without the subject. Ego psychology should therefore made two turns: from ego to the subject, and from Generalized other to the Big Other. This is the inevitable condition of every possible future ego psychology, if she seriously wants to understand the human being.
Descriptors		PSYCHOANALYTIC INTERPRETATION PSYCHOLOGY IMAGINATION