ABSTRACT
The world may be made up of a multitude of subjective selves, each making sense of their own experience based on their history and this may suggest that individuals walk the earth as separate atomised individuals disconnected from one another. However, anyone who has ever felt tearful in response to another’s grief, angry at another’s injustice or whose heart has raced with another’s excitement will have an embodied sense that this is not so. Equally indifference, desensitisation and withdrawal form intersubjectively. We discover who we are in relationship by dialoguing with our respective fields of experience. ‘Man becomes an I through a You’ (Buber, 1958: 80), the other is always included in the self. Intersubjectivity refers to the relations and sets of relations between subjects these being relations of mutual awareness of one another as subjects (Zahavi, 2014).
