Glossary entry (derived from question below)
English term or phrase:
in the figure of You
English answer:
the ideal type of the therapist embodied by "You"
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B D Finch
Dec 18, 2015 09:16
8 yrs ago
English term
in the figure of You
English
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Psychology
sentence
" I fine myself in tune with your account what is required in the figure of You, the figure of the therapist, namely a not easily explained capacity for experiencing the other (the one I call I, or in this context Person) form the inside, the ability (the wisdom) not to be drawn into games, the study and experience and thought that enables You to understand, in at least one sense of this rich and complex word, what is going on in the other."
I'd like to know what does "figure" mean here?
I'd like to know what does "figure" mean here?
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Dec 19, 2015 15:08: B D Finch Created KOG entry
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the ideal type of the therapist embodied by "You"
I understand this as being about the ideal type of the therapist that the person being addressed by the author is meant to embody. The use of the pronoun "You" seems to be intended to ellicit that person's (the reader's?) identification with this ideal type.
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in the idea of you as a person
One of the definitions of "figure" in the Oxford Dictionary is "a person as contemplated mentally" - that seems to fit well here.
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from/for a person like you
required from/for a person like you
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