Interaction and experiential demarcation between self and others
Main funder
Funds granted by main funder (€)
- 525 000,00
Project timetable
Project start date: 01/01/2018
Project end date: 31/12/2021
Summary
This research project focuses on the experiential boundary formation between self and others. Our key argument is that human interaction is essentially a matter of balancing between various aspects of demarcation. By distinguishing and analysing the different forms, levels, and registers of experiential demarcation, and by examining their interrelations, the project will make a significant contribution to debates on the embodied and affective foundations of everyday human relations.
The project will examine experiential demarcation with the help of three hypotheses. First, we hypothesize that experiential demarcation is a complex and dynamic phenomenon that simultaneously proceeds on multiple levels of experience. Besides cognition, it is influenced, regulated, and oriented by affectivity (incl. bodily sensations, emotions, and moods). Secondly, we hypothesize that affective demarcation is an independent and primary phenomenon, whereas cognitively based knowledge of one’s boundaries is constitutively secondary. To underline this foundational hierarchy, we shall show how the affective level of interaction continues to support and regulate interaction even when verbal communication and cognitive processing are disrupted. Third, we hypothesize that affective demarcation is a dynamic and processual phenomenon that provides the individual with flexible, situational, and vulnerable boundaries. By investigating the relationship between affective and cognitive demarcation in experiences of empathy and joint action, we will build a conceptual framework that also accounts for potential internal tensions between the two registers.
The project will investigate experiential demarcation from philosophical-conceptual, phenomenological, empirical, and artistic points of view. By showing how interaction is structured by multilayered and dynamic demarcation, the multidisciplinary EDM project will contribute a novel account of the foundations of human sociality and communality.
Project members:
Joona Taipale (PI)
Jussi Saarinen
Sanna Tirkkonen
Petra Nyman-Salonen
Heidi Fast
The project will examine experiential demarcation with the help of three hypotheses. First, we hypothesize that experiential demarcation is a complex and dynamic phenomenon that simultaneously proceeds on multiple levels of experience. Besides cognition, it is influenced, regulated, and oriented by affectivity (incl. bodily sensations, emotions, and moods). Secondly, we hypothesize that affective demarcation is an independent and primary phenomenon, whereas cognitively based knowledge of one’s boundaries is constitutively secondary. To underline this foundational hierarchy, we shall show how the affective level of interaction continues to support and regulate interaction even when verbal communication and cognitive processing are disrupted. Third, we hypothesize that affective demarcation is a dynamic and processual phenomenon that provides the individual with flexible, situational, and vulnerable boundaries. By investigating the relationship between affective and cognitive demarcation in experiences of empathy and joint action, we will build a conceptual framework that also accounts for potential internal tensions between the two registers.
The project will investigate experiential demarcation from philosophical-conceptual, phenomenological, empirical, and artistic points of view. By showing how interaction is structured by multilayered and dynamic demarcation, the multidisciplinary EDM project will contribute a novel account of the foundations of human sociality and communality.
Project members:
Joona Taipale (PI)
Jussi Saarinen
Sanna Tirkkonen
Petra Nyman-Salonen
Heidi Fast
Principal Investigator
Other persons related to this project (JYU)
Primary responsible unit
Fields of science
Follow-up groups
Profiling area: School of Wellbeing (University of Jyväskylä JYU) JYU.Well
Related publications and other outputs
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- Kohtaamisen illuusio : huomioita Winnicottin kirjeestä Kleinille (2022) Taipale, Joona; B1; OA
- Affect in Artistic Creativity : Painting to Feel (2021) Saarinen, Jussi A.; C1; 978-1-003-05716-1
- Dosentit ja yliopiston muodonmuutos : havaintoja näytelmästä (2021) Moisio, Saara; et al.; B1; OA
- How Museums Make Us Feel : Affective Niche Construction and the Museum of Non-Objective Painting (2021) Saarinen, Jussi A.; A1; OA
- Mitä taide tekee meille? (2021) Mäcklin, Harri; et al.; B1
- The illusion of contact : Insights from Winnicott’s 1952 letter to Klein (2021) Taipale, Joona; A1; OA
- Vallan jännitteiset ilmapiirit / Atmospheres of Tension and Power (2021) Tirkkonen, Sanna; E1
- What can the concept of affective scaffolding do for us? (2020) Saarinen, Jussi A.; A1; OA
- Donald Winnicott luovuudesta (2019) Saarinen, Jussi; et al.; A1; OA
- Kokemusta maalaamassa : Olli Piipon Eight Notes on Oceanic Feeling (2019) Saarinen, Jussi A.; B1; OA
