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This chapter introduces the concepts of scene and scenic understanding from Alfred Lorenzer, German cultural analyst and psychoanalyst in the Frankfurt tradition1; concepts that are explicitly psycho-social and congruent with the psychoanalytically informed epistemology and methodology that has inspired my research practice. In this tradition, ‘Imagination is scenic in its format: it inter-relates all informative, sensual and situated impressions in holistic images’ (Salling Olesen, 2012, para 3).
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Hollway, W. (2015). Scenic Writing and Scenic Understanding. In: Knowing Mothers. Studies in the Psychosocial Series. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137481238_6
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