The Primary Intersubjectivity and the Gestalt Theory

Abstract

For the study of the first year of life, Sander, Stern, and Gomez each chose the adult–infant relationship as the unit of analysis; they followed its development, respectively, in moments of meeting, in the proto-conversation and in the focus of attention. The authors explicitly refer to the Gestalt theory and support the need to interpret the behavior of the child as part of a wider context, as the experiences of a person in relation (Galli, 2010) since birth.

Keywords

• intersubjectivity
• moments of meeting
• affect attunement
• joint attention
• gestalt theory