The constant experience of self: conceptual approaches between Dewey and Mead

Abstract

We look at our article on a relational communication approach. In this sense, we seek to understand the communication process from a praxeological model as elaborated by Louis Quéré (1991), rather than an epistemological model, seized in earlier formulations about the communicative practice. With pragmatism as a guideline of our argument, we are interested in understand and approach the notions of self and experience as discussed by John Dewey (1896, 1980, 2010) and George Herbert Mead (1934). Both concepts seem appropriate to think about communication. Our purpose is then to see to what extent we can reasonably argue that the self is in constant experience and the implications that permeate this conceptual relationship.