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Онтология на смисловата емергентност: психодрамата и груповата психотерапия като привилегировано място за нейното изследване
The Ontology of Meaning Emergence: Psychodrama and Group Psychotherapy as a Privileged Site for Its Investigation

Author(s): Radostina Minina
Subject(s): Philosophy, Social Sciences, Psychology, Philosophical Traditions, Social psychology and group interaction, Phenomenology, Ontology
Published by: Институт по философия и социология при БАН
Keywords: emergence; psychodrama; Moreno; ontology; systems thinking; spontaneity; tele; group psychotherapy

Summary/Abstract: This article proposes an ontology of a specific type of emergence – meaning emergence among conscious subjects in a group context. While classical emergence theory describes the appearance of new properties at the system level from an external observer's position, we argue that among humans there exists a qualitatively different type of emergence that requires subjective presence as a constitutive condition, not a side effect. Psychodrama and group psychotherapy are considered a privileged methodological site for studying this emergence. Moreno's key concepts – tele, warming up, and spontaneity – are reinterpreted as ontological categories describing the conditions, the moment, and the trace of meaning emergence. The article proposes a three-layered ontology: ontology of conditions, ontology of the moment, and ontology of the trace.

  • Issue Year: XXXV/2026
  • Issue No: 5
  • Page Range: 129-139
  • Page Count: 11
  • Language: Bulgarian
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