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Group Process in the Resolution of Ethnonational Conflicts: The Case of Estonia

Department of Psychiatric Medicine, School of Medicine, University of Virginia in Charlottesville

The dimension of alterity as process and trajectory between absolute alterity and relative alterity is the subject of this article. The dimension of alterity as process of engagement between Self and Other that can potentially make continuity out of the antinomies of absolute and relative alterity will be shown to reveal itself in the arena of conflict enactment and resolution between two feuding factions. I propose that Self as agency is an approximation, the Other as absolute a misnomer; and that when Self and Other engage in a process of resolution of conflict, an ambiguous play space opens up fostering an exchange of representations of Self and Other.

Key Words: alterity • conflict • Estonians • metaphorization • Russia

Group Analysis, Vol. 34, No. 1, 99-113 (2001)
DOI: 10.1177/0533316401341009


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