Podcast TCCR #005 - Relationality, intersubjectivity, and reality: The foundations of the psychosocial

This episode explores one of the foundational pillars of the "Cognosystemic Theory of Human Psychosocial Relational Construction" (TCCR): the idea that psychosocial reality is neither an objective truth nor an isolated individual experience, but an intersubjective and narrative construction shaped within the relational fabric between subjects.

Reality as an Intersubjective Construction

The TCCR holds that the psychosocial cannot be reduced to the mental or the material. Reality is configured through the interaction between the human mind (cognition and emotion) and the social environment (language, culture, relationships). This episode explains how people do not simply perceive reality—they co-construct it through shared narratives.

Relationality as a Central Axis

Relationality is not just an additional theoretical category; it is the organizing principle of the TCCR. Instead of viewing the subject as an autonomous entity, it is understood as emergent from relationships. Identities, emotions, norms, and social structures are born and transformed through interaction. This perspective challenges individualistic approaches and offers a complex and dynamic reading of the human condition.

Intersubjectivity as the Source of Meaning

Drawing on Schütz and social constructionism, the episode delves into how meaning does not arise within the individual but between individuals. Intersubjectivity is the space where individual experience becomes understandable, validated, or questioned. Narrative plays a central role here: through it, lived experiences are transformed into shared realities that organize the lived world.

A Psychosocio-Material Perspective

The TCCR proposes an articulation of three dimensions: mind, society, and matter. Without denying the material conditions that shape human life, the theory focuses on the psychosocial level—the intersection between the internal and the collective where meaning is produced. This episode explains how these dimensions intertwine in daily life and why it is essential to understand them as a whole.

The Psychosocial as Narrative

Psychosocial reality is not something that simply is—it is narrated, interpreted, and contested. This episode introduces the concept of narrative systems: meaning structures that guide actions, shape emotions, and organize the perception of reality. From this perspective, intervening in the psychosocial means intervening in the narratives that sustain social problems.

What Does This Mean for Social Work?

The TCCR invites us to rethink Social Work from a deeply relational and narrative logic. Interventions should no longer focus solely on the individual or on decontextualized factors, but rather on the systems of meaning that emerge in interaction. Understanding the relationships and the narratives that traverse them is key to developing more ethical, situated, and transformative practices.

This episode concludes by reinforcing a central idea of the TCCR: there is no subject without relationship, and no reality without shared meaning.

Listen to it and discover how a relational and intersubjective lens can profoundly transform the way you understand and intervene in the psychosocial realm through Social Work.

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