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  title info:
    title: Young Children's Existential Encounters
  name:
    name part: Simopoulou, Zoi.
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author.
    role:
      role term: aut
    role:
      role term: http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut
  name:
    name part: SpringerLink (Online service)
  type of resource: text
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: gw
    date issued: 2019
    edition: 1st ed. 2019.
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: electronic
    form: electronic resource
    reformatting quality: access
    form: remote
    extent: X, 244 p. 1 illus. in color. online resource.
  abstract: 'This thoroughly innovative work beautifully weaves together existential and psychoanalytic perspectives - both theoretically and as part of data analysis - so that they enhance each other. Zoi Simopoulou explores the existential in the everyday (nursery) lives of five young children, shorn of historical, family or social context and using her own subjectivity in a sensitive, open-ended, theoretically informed and detailed way. Five children come alive in their deep existential thereness, through her, based on the sort of everyday encounter and play in which most researchers would find nothing.' - Wendy Hollway, Emeritus Professor of Psychology, Open University, UK This book is a psychoanalytic observation of five children's existential encounters in their ordinary life at the nursery. It is among the first within psychosocial literature to go beyond adult experiences and explore the existential in young children's lives as it plays out in their everydayness in symbolic and sensory articulations and in relationship with others; including with the author as someone who arrived looking for it. The author offers analysis in the form of a writing inquiry into meaning, by means of an on-going movement between the self and the other, the interior and the exterior, and psychoanalytic and existential-phenomenological ideas. This is illustrated through a kaleidoscopic account of May, Nadia, Edward, Baba and Eilidhs' encounters with nothingness, strangeness, ontological insecurity, death and selfhood as these emerged in the time they spent with the author embodying different forms - from concrete objects to dreams - exemplifying an attunement to existential ubiquity. With its relational ground, this work suggests the potential for adults - including researchers, therapists, trainees, educators and parents - to attune to their own existential encounters as a path to understanding those of children. Zoi Simopoulou is a practicing Art Therapist and Research Fellow at the Univers…
  table of contents: Part 1 -- 1.In search of a space -- 2. Children's existential encounters in literature -- 3. The self-in-reverie: thinking psychoanalytic observation with relational psychoanalysis and feminist writings on meaning -- Part 2: Reading, dreaming, writing, asking, playing, thinking with; reliving the observations kaleidoscopically -- The children -- The nursery -- 4.Nothingness; May and Gaston Bachelard -- 5.Strangeness; Nadia and Albert Camus -- 6.Ontological insecurity; Edward and Ronald Laing -- 7.Death: loss and growth; Baba -- 8.Selfhood; Eilidh and Fernando Pessoa -- Part 3 -- 9.Theoretical, interpersonal and unconscious liminality in psychoanalytic observation as a space for young children's existential encounters.
  note: by Zoi Simopoulou.
  subject:
    topic: Social psychology
  subject:
    topic: Existential psychology
  subject:
    topic: Psychoanalysis
  subject:
    topic: Infant psychology
  subject:
    topic: Child psychology
  subject:
    topic: School psychology
  subject:
    topic: Psychosocial Studies
  subject:
    topic: Existential approach
  subject:
    topic: Psychoanalysis
  subject:
    topic: Infancy and Early Childhood Development
  subject:
    topic: Child and School Psychology
  classification: HM1001-1281
  classification: 302
  related item:
    title info:
      title: Springer eBooks
  related item:
    title info:
      title: Studies in the Psychosocial
  identifier: 9783030108410
  identifier: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-10841-0
  record info:
    record creation date: 190228
    record change date: 20191025102234.0
    record identifier: 978-3-030-10841-0