ABSTRACT
In working out the three main aspects of the core mental process, the authors have a unique sort of movement that appears to be characteristic of selfhood as such. This movement is the result of the concerted activity of the three major aspects of the work of contextualization: objectification; imagination; and symbolization. The chapter aims to provide an understanding of the role of the other in the constitution of the self. The cyclical process through which the mind ascends towards the object and then re-descends towards itself and in the course of which the world and the self are concomitantly disclosed in the light of the disclosure of the object bears a striking resemblance to the primeval phenomenon that Heidegger calls transcendence. The concept of mind to which psychoanalytical investigation leads has been glimpsed by a number of philosophers.
