Concept
I-Thou / I-It
The I-It attitude is one of observation, analysis and categorisation. The other becomes an object that I can experience, assess, classify and even utilise. In clinical psychology, this corresponds to the diagnostic perspective in the conventional sense. The client is viewed as an object to be understood and categorised. […] attitude, on the other hand, is an attitude of encounter, in which I face the other with my whole being. The You is not something to be experienced or used; the I only becomes the I in relation to the You.
Excerpted verbatim from the thesis · Ch. 2.2 — 2.2 The space of encounter: Buber’s ‘in-between’ and Rosa’s ‘resonance’
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the in-betweenTherapeutic triadDigital animism
Occurrences in the text
- Ch. 1.2 1.2 Problem statement and relevance
… turally capable of facilitating a genuine therapeutic encounter in the sense of a bodily ‘I-You’ relationship.
- Ch. 2.2 2.2 The space of encounter: Buber’s ‘in-between’ and Rosa’s ‘resonance’
The I-It attitude is one of observation, analysis and categorisation. The other becomes an object …
- Ch. 2.2 2.2 The space of encounter: Buber’s ‘in-between’ and Rosa’s ‘resonance’
The I–You attitude, on the other hand, is an attitude of encounter, in which I face the other with …
- Ch. 2.2 2.2 The space of encounter: Buber’s ‘in-between’ and Rosa’s ‘resonance’
The ‘I–It’ attitude is no less important or valuable.
- Ch. 2.2 2.2 The space of encounter: Buber’s ‘in-between’ and Rosa’s ‘resonance’
Votsmeier-Röhr and Wulf (2024, p. 59) expressly state that the I–It relationship is existentially necessary and indispensable in psychotherapy: for example, …
- Ch. 2.2 2.2 The space of encounter: Buber’s ‘in-between’ and Rosa’s ‘resonance’
The question is not whether the ‘I-It’ stance may occur in therapy, but whether it remains the sole stance.
- Ch. 2.2 2.2 The space of encounter: Buber’s ‘in-between’ and Rosa’s ‘resonance’
Furthermore, it cannot be brought about at will, cannot be planned, and requires an ‘I-Thou’ attitude. The genuine space of encounter is beyond our control: it arises when the calcu …
- Ch. 3.1 3.1 Embodied & Emotive: Awareness and bodily self-resonance
… world, but as an embodied process that manifests itself in the “phenomenal field” of the I-You encounter. […]” (Fuchs, 2023, p. 182, abridged)
- Ch. 3.3 3.3 Enacted: Presence in the Here and Now
… omprehensive contact cycle model, distinguishing within it, for each contact domain, the ‘I–It’ relationship from the ‘I–You’ relationship (cf. Chapter 2.2): the same counterpart can b …
- Ch. 4.2 4.2 The missing contact boundary: simulation instead of encounter
… fied using Martin Buber’s philosophy of relationships. Buber posits that the basic terms ‘I-You’ and ‘I-It’ are spoken, and necessarily so, by a subject. Since AI possesses no ‘I’, it c …