NEW332H1 Chapter Notes - Chapter 4: Alpha Process
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Element is undigested food, alpha-function is the digestive process and -element is food that can now be used by the body. Alpha function encompasses any way that the mind can digest" the elements and labelling, naming, daydreaming, holding, associating, containing, sitting-with, image- making, tolerating. includes reverie, symbolizing, Reverie is also the state of mind that is receptive to communication from another person. The result of alpha function or reverie is the creation of -elements. Only by digesting beta elements and transform them to alphas elements, can they be processed by other mental factors. Its not only mirroring, it"s a active engagement with the infants mental state, to picture what they are experiencing. In buddhism this would also include the insight to viewing mental experiences as impermanent, empty and ultimately unsatisfying which refuses to reify the mind and the world and allow us to live more responsively, less neurotically, more authentically.
