I think what you're talking about is referred to in the literature as interdepence or intersubjectivity and its different from co-dependence, its not just a matter of semantics with negative connotations, there's a categorical difference, I think between the normal and pathological.
The better theorisations which I have encountered have suggested that there is an infantile and adolescent interdependence, an independent season of life and then mature interdependence.
Humans remain intersubjective all their days, the most radical versions of intersubjectivity suggest that the very self is a social construct, between the individual and others produced by continuous "dialogue" or intercommunication.
It bares some resemblance to some sociological, micro-sociological and social psychological ideas about social character or a social, as well as individual, unconscious or subconscious.
To be honest, and I am a socialist in the broadest sense of the word, not simply the political, economic or democratic sense, I think people can under rate the importance of independence and individualism sometimes, its all very well for people who are usually in that state to proclaim how great interdependence is but there are people who struggle to achieve independence, for instance the disabled, and who do not like their dependent state. I think we owe it to people in that condition to think seriously about the value of both independence and interdependence.
The better theorisations which I have encountered have suggested that there is an infantile and adolescent interdependence, an independent season of life and then mature interdependence.
Humans remain intersubjective all their days, the most radical versions of intersubjectivity suggest that the very self is a social construct, between the individual and others produced by continuous "dialogue" or intercommunication.
It bares some resemblance to some sociological, micro-sociological and social psychological ideas about social character or a social, as well as individual, unconscious or subconscious.
To be honest, and I am a socialist in the broadest sense of the word, not simply the political, economic or democratic sense, I think people can under rate the importance of independence and individualism sometimes, its all very well for people who are usually in that state to proclaim how great interdependence is but there are people who struggle to achieve independence, for instance the disabled, and who do not like their dependent state. I think we owe it to people in that condition to think seriously about the value of both independence and interdependence.
