Emergence and development of the self and the triadic relationship

Abstract

This work highlights the importance of the study of the genesis of the dialogical self. We assume a perspective that this self emerges and develops immersed in the communication process facing the Other. Focusing on the history of mother-infant dyad during the first eight months of the infant's life, we suggest that both the pattern of organization of the dialogue, achieving an abbreviated form, and the analysis of the mother's speech exhibit a process of differentiation of the infant as a dialogical partner. Moreover, simultaneously appear the rise of agentivity and subjectivity of the infant, anchored by the growth of the history constructed by the dyad. This historicity, allowable by the emergent infant's capacity for distancing from the here and now of actions, appears as a third pole of the dialogue, constituent, thus, a triadic dialogical relationship.