Resonance and Unconscious Intelligence in Institutionalised Human Encounters

– Dynamic Supramodal Processes in Professionals’ and Children’s encounters and development

Abstract

This article focuses on how we can theoretically conceptualise and understand unconscious dynamics and unconscious intelligence with implications for the development and well-being of participants in institutionalised human practices.
An integrative theory approach outlines how unconscious intelligence and embodied memory creatively contribute to self-regulation and self-organisation of the system of consciousness. The system of consciousness covers a variety of fields and levels of complexity, including intra-subjective, as well as inter-subjective fields of consciousness. The system of consciousness is accordingly associated with sociocultural forms of consciousness and systems of meaning. The theory outlines an integrative merge of a phenomenology approach to the dynamic unconscious with a system network-psychology of consciousness as an emerging cybernetic network of information. Two examples of consciousness dynamics with implications in institutionalised lives illustrate the theory, and the discussion includes ethical considerations and questions considering education and therapy.