ABSTRACT

According to a recent and prominent view, a ‘we-perspective’ arises out of a dyadic I-you relation involving a special form of reciprocity in which I relate to another as a you – as somebody who is also attending and addressing me. As important as this argument might be, one obvious limitation lies in that it typically applies to dyadic forms of ‘we’ which are bound to the here and now of face-to-face interactions between ‘ad hoc pairs of individuals’. Drawing inspiration from Sartre’s Critique of Dialectical Reason and Freud’s Group Psychology and the Analysis of the Ego, I will argue that in order to trace a way out of this impasse, one needs to shift the theoretical focus from dyadic face-to-face (immediate) relations of reciprocity between I and You, self and other to ternary relations of ‘mediated reciprocity’ involving the figure and the functions of a third party (le tiers).

摘要

根据最近的一个突出观点，“我们的视角”产生于二元的我-你关系，涉及一种特殊的互惠形式，在这种关系中，我与另一个人联系在一起，就像你一样——作为一个也在关注我并向我讲话的人。尽管这个论点可能很重要，但一个明显的限制在于它通常适用于“我们”的二元形式，这些形式与“临时对个人”之间面对面互动的此时此地有关。从萨特的辩证理性批判和弗洛伊德的群体心理学和自我分析中汲取灵感，我认为，为了找到走出这一僵局的出路，人们需要将理论重点从二元面对面（直接)我和你、自我和他者之间的互惠关系到“中介互惠”的三元关系，涉及第三方（le tiers）的形象和功能。