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Print version ISSN 0103-6564   AYOUCH, Thamy. Genealogy of
intersubjectivity and affect figurability: Winnicott and
Merleau-Ponty. Psicol. USP [online]. 2012, vol.23, n.2, pp.
253-274.  Epub July 17, 2012. ISSN 0103-6564.  This article aims
to tackle the question of intersubjectivity, beyond the
traditional philosophical question of otherness. This issue is
fundamental in philosophy, but also in psychoanalysis and
psychopathology, since it involves the constitution of a
relationship with the other, an experience based on infantile
memory and never definitively acquired. This involves various
theoretical and clinical experiences, as far as the treatment of
contemporary psychopathological forms is concerned. The author
shows how Merleau-Ponty's interest for the body and the other
echoes winnicottian psychoanalysis and how both reveal a mental
act specific to intersubjectivity and affect figurability, lying
betwe