Scientifically accessing and systematically approaching self-reports and a research subject’s reflection is a central task of psychological research. However, psychological research often fails to account for the sociality of the individual’s self-reports and reflection. In fact, addressing the complexity of the multi-faced reciprocal relations, how individuals get in touch with themselves through the encounter with the ‘other’ occupies psychology since its beginning up to the present day. A recently published volume edited by Gobodo-Madikizela (2021) delivers an in-depth analysis of the mutual encounters of second-generation descendants of perpetrators and survivors of the Holocaust and stresses the importance of “engaging with the past through second generation dialogue”, showing that the introspective, dialogical encounter offers fruitful insight to processes that frequently remain ‘invisible’ and under the surface of intergenerationally travelling trauma, shame and guilt. Using the example of Gobodo-Madikizela’s volume (2021), this article seeks to highlight contemporary applications of the introspectiv encounter and shows its value for locating psychology beyond a strict natural scientific discipline-understanding. By developing the notion of the introspective encounter ‘of the first and the second degree’, this article aims at showing how Gobodo-Madikizela’s volume immerses readers, not only showing how psychology can produce a scientific outcome by crossing the border of the classic subject-object separation (first degree), but also facilitating the reader to enter an introspective dialogue with herself (second degree). By this analysis, this article challenges the way we currently converse in psychological research.

科学地访问和系统地处理自我报告和研究对象的反思是心理学研究的核心任务。然而，心理学研究往往无法解释社会性个人的自我报告和反思。事实上，处理多面互惠关系的复杂性，个人如何通过与“他者”的相遇与自己取得联系，从它开始到现在一直占据着心理学。Gobodo-Madikizela 最近出版的一本书（2021 年）深入分析了大屠杀肇事者和幸存者的第二代后裔的相互遭遇，并强调了“通过第二代对话与过去接触”的重要性，表明内省的、对话的相遇为经常保持“隐形”和在代际旅行的创伤、羞耻和内疚的表面之下的过程提供了富有成效的洞察力。以 Gobodo-Madikizela 的卷 (2021) 为例，本文旨在强调内省遭遇的当代应用，并展示其将心理学定位于严格的自然科学学科理解之外的价值。通过发展“一级和二级”的内省相遇的概念，本文旨在展示戈博多-马迪基泽拉的书如何让读者沉浸其中，不仅展示了心理学如何通过跨越经典学科的边界来产生科学成果——对象分离（一级），但也便于读者与她自己（二级）。通过这种分析，本文挑战了我们目前在心理学研究中的交谈方式。