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Tutors, to Researcher), as well as the layers of Foulkes’s Levels (1975) and Matte-
Blanco’s (1988) Strata.
In the light of an appreciation of various forms of layering of experience, it seems that
‘Sticky Moments’ will occur when there are resonances across a number of layers, with
the ‘Stickiest Moments’ happening when the maximum number of layers are involved.
These resonances can occur along a range of dimensions. An example is topic area (so a
topic may be salient between patient and therapist, for the therapist, between the
therapist and their peers, between the therapist and their tutors, for their tutors and
between them, and for the researcher). Interpersonal processes are another example of
cross-level resonance and repercussion.
Transfer of form
This concept depends on an awareness of metaphor and metonymy and the forms of
relationship between them. I became aware of making a lot of observations that could
be said to be about parallels, about overlaps between disciplines. Initially this was about
overlaps between psychoanalysis and anthropology, particularly ethnography, and there
are many examples of such links in my notes. For example,
I think there is something about using a topographical framework, interestingly
like early Freud, and I’m thinking in terms of terrain to be discovered. And
some of that comes from, if you like, geology and what’s under the ground,
and oceanography and what’s under the sea, and I can explore the depths of
phenomena, and it’s really like mapping, the hills and valleys and the streams
and rivers, and seas and then noticing topographical features, some of which
begin to become familiar, to be able to look at them in more detail and to be
able to look at them from different perspectives.
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