Teremtő párbeszéd. A segítő beszélgetés mint kreatív együttalkotás

Abstract

Background and Aims: This study discusses the therapeutic conversation in a phenomenological and hermeneutical framework and analyzes it as a process of joint creativity and creation. To this end, I first briefly outline the theory of one of the most influential phenomenologists, Maurice Merleau-Ponty, who attempted to account for the specific plasticity of experience and the creative nature of speech and expression along the concepts of chiasm, flesh, and wild meaning. Subsequently, I outline the concept of the phenomenological unconscious as described by the Hungarian philosopher László Tengelyi. This sphere is the birthplace of meanings that surprise consciousness itself, meanings alien to consciousness, which we consciously try to express, make accessible to ourselves, and anchor raw meanings with the help of language. The role of language in dialogue and understanding is a central theme in Merleau-Ponty’s phenomenology and in the hermeneutics of the German philosopher Hans-Georg Gadamer, who argues that in a conversation we necessarily create a common language, which creates a community for the interlocutors as a result of which they will no longer be the same. Finally, I outline a possible phenomenological and hermeneutical description of the therapeutic conversation within the theoretical coordinate system of the above authors, focusing on the language- and world-creating potential and creative nature of the dialogue between psychologist and client.