Dialog und Vielstimmigkeit: Martin Buber und Michail Bachtin Gruppenanalyse und Dialogphilosophie Teil 1: Martin Buber

Abstract

Summary Dialogue and Multivoicedness: Martin Buber and Mikhail Bakhtin Group Analysis and Philosophy of Dialogue Part 1: Martin Buber With the intersubjective turn in psychoanalysis, interest in the philosophy of dialogue has increased significantly both in psychoanalysis and in group analysis. But in this reception the most important representatives of this philosophical direction - Martin Buber and Mikhail Bakhtin - so far remain isolated from each other. A reconstruction of the German-Jewish-Russian continuity in the philosophy of dialogue, however, is of contemporary relevance for the basic problems of group analysis. Up to now group analysis does not have a notion of dialogue, which does justice to the specifics of its practical experience. In this article, the contribution is discussed in detail, the philosophy of dialogism can make in the development of such a concept. In the first part the work of Martin Buber is in the foreground, which will be placed in the context of recent research on the present moment and mentalization. Buber's notion of dialogue turns out to be of only limited use for group analysis, because his thinking remains fixated on the singular dialogic situation and the isolated ego as the starting point of the dialogic encounter. In the second part options will be proposed to overcome these shortcomings within a Bakhtinian framework.