Powers of engagement: on being engaged, being indifferent; and urban life
- 1 June 1999
- Vol. 31 (2) , 161-168
- https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1475-4762.1999.tb00181.x
Abstract
SummaryThis paper explores the dynamics of engagement and disengagement within urban space. It argues that a certain capacity to encounter the world around the self in an active, creative way is central to the self's ability to recognize and care about the places it inhabits and the people encountered within those places. Drawing on the work of Donald Winnicott and Jessica Benjamin, it outlines a framework of self‐other psycho‐dynamics through which this active, creative encountering may be understood, and examines the violence of indifference that occurs when this everyday creativity is absent.Keywords
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