Emergent Reality

• Gestalt Therapy and Gestalt Theory by Timothy C. McNamara, 2/10/97
  • Gestalt theory has to offer more than criticism by Gerhard Stemberger, Society for Gestalt Theory and its Applications (GTA), 2/17/97
    • Not two parts, but a new whole by Philip Brownell, 3/2/97
      
      

Phil. ...I hope you read my post on Truth/Non truth and Pathology. We are getting acutely micro here but I think Iam on your trail. Back in the sixties I read quite extensively on what would best be entitled "micro social psychology" or the social/psychology of small groups. A book authored by Secord and Bachman I believe entitled "Social Psychology" was very helpful. Cross reference this with Sartre's cocept of the unconscious "existential unconscious and I believe we are in the arena of that which is yielded or which emerges from the interaction between two people. What we actually have here is more like four self's involved (reference Sartre's concept of duality and R D. Laing s concept of the devided self[non-pathologic}) . We have two what you call as "thou's" and I define as "the being for others and two thee's which would be the being in itself. What occurs during interaction is a meeting of the being for others (for itself) which is ,in part , a reflection of the being in itself. The time at which these two respective beings intersect would be the meaning "for the moment" This intersection or cognitive synapse would thus yield an emergent truth or the truth secondary to that point at which the for itself of 1 and the for itself of 2 mixes or blends together in a mutually agreed upon union of the two consciousnesses (for lack of a better term). This would be emergent truth but time is the elusive factor here. I would suggest here that truth for th moment has a evolving aspect to it which is in part contingent upon the cumulative interaction. Thus the truth for the moment becomes a more enduring truth as the sucession of interactions proceed. This succession of truths for th moment develops ultimetly into a more enduring truth (or not) and what we refer to as a "bond" (or not). Finally, what would you say to the statement "only through the divestiture of the unconsciousness do we truely become free"......over and out......Ed

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