Concept

Unavailability

Resonance can neither be forced nor prevented: no method and no step-by-step guide can guarantee that a person will enter into resonance.

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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ResonanceMoment of MeetingExperiment

Occurrences in the text

1. Ch. 1.1 1.1 Personal Motivation

   … elves anew, time and again, to the unpredictable – or, as Hartmut Rosa would put it, the ‘unavailable’. This mutual attunement requires a physicality and an intimacy that is only possible bet …

2. Ch. 1.5 1.5 Methodological Approach and Structure of the Thesis

   … amework is drawn from the philosophy of dialogue (Buber), sociology (Rosa’s resonance and unavailability theories), phenomenology of the body (Merleau-Ponty, Fuchs, Waldenfels), developmental ps …

3. Ch. 1.5 1.5 Methodological Approach and Structure of the Thesis

   … stablished. The concepts follow a clear sequence, from the foundations (inter-embodiment, unavailability) through the ontological rupture (no body, no ‘I’, no possible ‘you’) to the clinical con …

4. Ch. 2.2 2.2 The space of encounter: Buber’s ‘in-between’ and Rosa’s ‘resonance’

   … be planned, nor can it be forced. It either occurs, or it does not. Buber calls this the ‘unavailability of the You’:

5. Ch. 2.2 2.2 The space of encounter: Buber’s ‘in-between’ and Rosa’s ‘resonance’

   … , cannot be planned, and requires an ‘I-Thou’ attitude. The genuine space of encounter is beyond our control: it arises when the calculating ‘I-It’ attitude recedes at the moment of encounter.

6. Ch. 2.2 2.2 The space of encounter: Buber’s ‘in-between’ and Rosa’s ‘resonance’

   … four elements: mutual contact (affection), influence (self-efficacy), transformation and unavailability (Horn & Rosa, 2024, p. 38 and Rosa, 2024b, p. 38).

7. Ch. 2.2 2.2 The space of encounter: Buber’s ‘in-between’ and Rosa’s ‘resonance’

   The fourth and, for Rosa’s theory, most central feature is the element of unavailability. Resonance can neither be forced nor prevented: no method and no step-by-step guide can g …

8. Ch. 2.3 2.3 Inter-corporeality and intersubjectivity: the bodily realisation of the encounter (as the core of the therapeutic relationship)

   … held and meant by the other. The process requires vulnerability on both sides and remains beyond our control: what arises between two people cannot be controlled by either of them (Fuchs, 2024a, p. …

9. Ch. 3 3 Gestalt therapy as relational medicine in practice

   … (Fogarty et al., 2016, p. 36). Within this indeterminacy, the therapist responds to the ‘unavailability’ defined in Chapter 2.2 as an essential aspect of genuine encounter: that which cannot be …

10. Ch. 3.1 3.1 Embodied & Emotive: Awareness and bodily self-resonance

    This brings us full circle to Rosa’s unavailability (section 2.2). What applied there to resonance applies here to healing: it cannot be brou …

11. Ch. 4.1 4.1 The lack of corporeality: echo instead of resonance

    … ears to respond. Rosa’s four criteria for resonance (affection, response, transformation, unavailability) require a resonant, autonomous medium that responds with its own voice whilst itself bei …