Palgrave Macmillan | Young Children's Existential Encounters (2019 EN)

Author: Zoi Simopoulou
Full Title: Young Children's Existential Encounters
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan; 1st ed. 2019 edition (February 28, 2019)
Year: 2019
ISBN-13: 9783030108410 (978-3-030-10841-0), 9783030108403 (978-3-030-10840-3)
ISBN-10: 3030108414, 3030108406
Pages: 244
Language: English
Genre: Psychology: Psychosocial Studies
File type: EPUB (True), PDF (True)
Quality: 10/10
Price: 117.69 €


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.


Overview:
✓ Explores five children’s existential encounters in their ordinary life at the nursery
✓ Discusses how adults can use their own existential encounters to understand those of children
✓ Forges the path for psychosocial literature to look beyond the experiences of adults alone

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