Intuition

A Bridge To the Coenesthetic World of Experience

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ID8332691
AuthorsHeikki Piha (Tuohikuja 8 B 4 02130 Espoo FINLAND, corresponding author)
Year2005
Volume53
Issue1
Pages23-49
Publication date2005-03-01
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueJournal of the American Psychoanalytic Association (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0003-0651 • E-ISSN: 1941-2460
PublisherSAGE Publications (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.1177/00030651050530011601
PMID15822422
OpenAlexW2067462552
LanguageEN
Citations received3
References cited16

The concept of intuition is relatively unestablished in psychoanalysis, where it is often associated with narcissistic meanings and vagueness. But intuition, as an integrated mode of archaic coenesthetic thinking, should be kept conceptually free of those connotations. Its capacity of undifferentiated delineation supplies an instinctive general means of dealing immediately with various rationally indistinct phenomena, such as forms, shades, and multidimensionality, regardless of the boundaries between sensory modalities. It may be impossible to translate intuitive experiences into lexical form; these languages are incommensurable. Intuition as a preconscious nondiscursive thinking process is needed in creativity, as well as less conspicuously in countless everyday activities. In speech communication, intuition rapidly specifies subtle shades of meaning in linguistic content and all the prosody. In psychoanalytic work intuition is like radar, creating preliminary contacts with the inner world of the analysand. The observations gained require, however, rational consideration to be confirmed. Intuition is an essential instrument of the psychoanalyst, and also functions in the service of tact to create working space and adequate forms of interpretations. Clinical vignettes reflecting some problematic fates of special intuitiveness in creativity are presented from psychoanalytic work with artists

Cognitive science · Consciousness · Creativity · Epistemology · Intuition · Preconscious · Psychoanalysis · Psychoanalytic theory · Synchronicity · Tact · Unconscious mind · Philosophy · Philosophy and Theoretical Science · Psychology · Psychotherapy Techniques and Applications · Social Psychology

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