Infinity of the Unsaid - Unformulated Experience, Language, and the Nonverbal Stern Donnel B. William Alanson White Institute and New York University Postdoctoral Program in Psychotherapy and Ps

The theory of unformulated experience is an interpersonal/relational conception of unconscious process. That was the perspective Donnel B. The idea is that unconscious content is not fully formed, merely awaiting discovery, but is instead better understood as potential experience-a vaguely organized, primitive, global, non-ideational, affective state.In the past, the formulation of experience was most commonly understood as verbal articulation.

In this new book, Stern recognizes that we need to theorize the formulation of nonverbal experience, as well. Stern took in 1997 in his first book, Unformulated Experience: From Dissociation to Imagination in Psychoanalysis. Using new concepts of the "acceptance" and "use" of experience that "feels like me," Stern argues for a wider conception of "meaningfulness." Some formulated experience is verbal ("articulation"), but other