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ABSTRACT
In this paper, I offer a dimensional approach to empathy, which I propose has an immediate perception-like aspect and an extended narrative aspect. In psychoanalysis, we go back and forth between these two forms of empathy. Our elaboration of the other’s situation in the world ends up as a new holistic perception of their state. In this way, narratives end up in the body.
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Daniel Goldin
Daniel Goldin serves as editor of Psychoanalytic Inquiry. He is a training and supervising analyst on the faculty of the Institute of Contemporary Psychoanalysis in Los Angeles and has written numerous articles for Psychoanalytic Dialogues, Psychoanalysis: Self and context and Psychoanalytic Inquiry. His book Storying in Psychoanalysis and in the Everyday World will be published by Routledge this year. He and Daniel Posner create and host the popular podcast “The Conversation,” which confront important issues of the day in a psychoanalytic vein.