Toward a phenomenological dialogue

This review details differences between a phenomenological and a psychologized dialogue. The implications of this distinction provide a critique of and alternative to psychologized communication concepts: metaperspectives of “self,”; empathy, and self‐actualization. A phenomenological dialogue, when not equated with the psychologized version of dialogue, provides an alternative to traditional subject/object paradigms of human communication.

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Mr. Arnett is Assistant Professor of Speech Communication, Saint Cloud State University.