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Psychoanalysis and Psychotherapy

2020

Object-oriented ontology

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An Essay Concerning The Possibility Of A Unified Theory Of Counseling, Lance Kair Jul 2020

An Essay Concerning The Possibility Of A Unified Theory Of Counseling, Lance Kair

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The Object-Oriented Ontology of Graham Harman, also known as Object-Oriented Philosophy, presumes to describe an ontology of all objects, including human beings. This essay shows how the discipline of counseling can benefit from such an ontology of objects. To move into this particular case of an Object-Oriented Ontology of human beings, and to distinguish, initially, at least, between the object that we are now concerned with, or will be soon, and the universe of subjectivity, I propose that we refer to universal objects, which is to indicate objects that exist in the universe, however we might define it. In this …