INTERSUBJECTIVITY

• Intersubjectivity refers to the agreement exists between people if they agree on a given set of meaning or definition.
• Thomas Scheff defines “intersubjectivity as “the sharing of subjective states by two or more individuals.
• Intersubjectivity is also used to refer to common sense or shared divergences of meanings like self-presentation and love.
• Intersubjectivity is the philosophical concept of the interaction between the "self" and the "other".
• Intersubjectivity refers to the shared awareness, and understanding among persons.
• Intersubjectivity is made possible by the awareness of the self and the other.
• Acceptance in human psychology is a person’s agreement to the reality of a situation, knowing a process or a state without trying to change it or reject it.
• “Self-acceptance is an individual’s acceptance for all of his/her attributes, positive or negative
• Empathy- The ability to share emotions
• This emotion is driven by a person's awareness that the other is a person's thoughts and feelings.
• Sympathy Is "feeling with", while empathy is "feeling in".
• I-I" relationship in which people make themselves the center of their world.
• I-It" relationship is the second type of relationship.
• There are people that treat the other people into the status of an object-an It.
• seeming is Actions where an individual presents himself or herself in a certain way when dealing with others
• Persons take on "roles" or act out characters when dealing with certain people or when in certain situations.
• jean-paul satre- He explains that when you look at a person, the act of objectification allows you to capture that person's freedom to be what he or she wants to be
• Edmund Husserl- He believes that intersubjectivity is more than just shared understanding, but it is the capability to put oneself in the place where the other is.
• Dialogue- It is a deep and genuine relationship between persons
• Martin Buber- A Jewish philosopher had a great interest in the study of relating ourselves to others.