scholarly journals Knowing as Holistic Experience: A Challenge to Plato from Jungian Sandplay

Paideusis ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 17 (2) ◽  
pp. 75-80
Author(s):  
Beatrice Donald
Keyword(s):  
Human Experience ◽  
Sensory Experience ◽  
Change Processes ◽  
Phenomenal World ◽  
Learning Context ◽  
Sandplay Therapy ◽  
Deep Relationship ◽  
Jungian Archetypes ◽  
Theory Of Forms ◽  
Pure Knowledge

Plato’s suggestion that pure knowledge, described in his theory of Forms as the archetypal basis of reality, is questioned using the sequence from the key session of a Jungian Sandplay therapy case as an example of direct human experience of the archetype. As was recognized by Jung, a parallel may be drawn between Jungian archetypes and Platonic Forms in that both are primary structures contained and manifested in the phenomenal world. In Sandplay, a patient unable to transcend her quandary through reason is able to find relief from the tension of the arguing opposites within her when she creates an image with her hands, in a state of reverie, responding to an internal impetus governed not by reason alone but by spontaneous, nonverbal sensory experience. The image she creates in this way brings her into a deep relationship with herself and marks the beginning of a newly forming selfconfidence that guides her. This example illustrates the holistic nature of human experience and change processes, in therapy or in any learning context.

Phenomenology in practice: towards a methodology for a ‘subjective’ approach

2006 ◽  
Vol 9 (1) ◽  
pp. 31-71 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sue Hamilton ◽  
Ruth Whitehouse ◽  
Keri Brown ◽  
Pamela Combes ◽  
Edward Herring ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Human Experience ◽  
Sensory Experience ◽  
Explicit Methods ◽  
Environmental Aspects ◽  
Everyday Experience ◽  
Subjective Approach ◽  
Archaeological Methods ◽  
Methodological Practice ◽  
Traditional Approaches

The article deals with the practice of phenomenological archaeological fieldwork, which is concerned with sensory experience of landscapes and locales. Phenomenological approaches in archaeology have cast light on aspects of past human experience not addressed by traditional archaeological methods. So far, however, they have neither developed explicit methodologies nor a discussion of methodological practice and have laid themselves open to accusations of being ‘subjective’ and ‘unscientific’. This article describes and explores three experiments in phenomenological archaeology developed in the context of the Tavoliere–Gargano Prehistory Project and carried out on Neolithic settlement sites of the type known as villaggi trincerati. Our aims are both to develop explicit methods for this type of fieldwork and to combine phenomenology with other more traditional approaches, such as those concerned with technological, economic and environmental aspects of landscapes and sites. Our work also differs from other phenomenological archaeology in its concern with familiar, everyday experience and domestic contexts, rather than exceptional, special experience in ritual contexts. We consider how our particular approach might be used to further understandings of past lives.

scholarly journals The Freudian Thing and the Ethics of Speech

Konturen ◽  
2015 ◽  
Vol 8 ◽  
pp. 133 ◽  
Author(s):  
Daniel Wilson
Keyword(s):  
Human Experience ◽  
Sensory Experience ◽  
The Other ◽  
Mirror Stage ◽  
Scientific Psychology ◽  
The Unconscious ◽  
Pass Through ◽  
Definition Of

In his 1891 On Aphasia Freud defines the “thing” in the terms of J.S. Mill’s empiricist phenomenology as a set of sensory impressions that is linked both to language and to immediate sensory experience. These distinctions structure the Project for a Scientific Psychology and reappear in “The Unconscious,” where Freud writes that the unconscious is a scene of experience that is linked to, but continues to insist in excess of, language. While Lacan opposes das Ding to Freud’s definition, in “The Unconscious,” of the “unconscious Vorstellungen” as “the presentation of the thing alone,” this essay argues that Freud’s definition of the unconscious points to a scene of experience disorganized by language, that is censored by the passage through the mirror stage, and about which the Other knows nothing. The essay ends by looking at several texts by Tito Mukhopadhyay, who is autistic. Mukhopadhyay describes his autism in terms of a decision to not pass through the mirror stage, which left him exposed to a scene of experience disorganized by the desire carried on the Other’s voice. In his eventual decision to enter into language and write of his experience, Mukhopadhyay’s writings locate an ethics of speech that, rather than censor the unconscious presentation of the thing by linking it to a prohibited Oedipal object, makes a space within the discourse of the Other for a universal dimension of human experience.

Living by Inches

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Evan A. Kutzler
Keyword(s):  
Civil War ◽  
Sense Of Self ◽  
Building Blocks ◽  
Human Experience ◽  
Sensory Experience ◽  
American Civil War ◽  
Daily Experiences ◽  
Five Senses

From battlefields, boxcars, and forgotten warehouses to notorious prison camps like Andersonville and Elmira, prisoners seemed to be everywhere during the American Civil War. Yet there is much we do not know about the soldiers and civilians whose very lives were in the hands of their enemies. Living by Inches is the first book to examine how imprisoned men in the Civil War perceived captivity through the basic building blocks of human experience--their five senses. From the first whiffs of a prison warehouse to the taste of cornbread and the feeling of lice, captivity assaulted prisoners' perceptions of their environments and themselves. Evan A. Kutzler demonstrates that the sensory experience of imprisonment produced an inner struggle for men who sought to preserve their bodies, their minds, and their sense of self as distinct from the fundamentally uncivilized and filthy environments surrounding them. From the mundane to the horrific, these men survived the daily experiences of captivity by adjusting to their circumstances, even if these transformations worried prisoners about what type of men they were becoming.

Timaeus 48e-52d and the Third Man Argument

1983 ◽  
Vol 9 ◽  
pp. 123-147
Author(s):  
William J. Prior
Keyword(s):  
Phenomenal World ◽  
The Third ◽  
Metaphysical Theory ◽  
Vexed Question ◽  
Theory Of Forms ◽  
Being And Becoming

In this paper I examine a much discussed passage of the Timaeus. This passage contains one of the most important descriptions of Plato's ontology to be found in all the dialogues. The ontological scheme there described differs from that presented in the middle Platonic dialogues in that a third sort of entity, the Receptacle or space, is added to the two classes of things familiar to readers of the Phaedo and Republic: Being (i.e. the Forms) and Becoming (the phenomenal world). The introduction of the Receptacle into Plato's ontology enables Plato to clarify the relation between the orders of Being and Becoming in a way not otherwise possible. When the relation between the Forms and their phenomenal counterparts has been clarified, I shall argue, it becomes clear that the Theory of Forms as presented in the Timaeus is in fact a coherent metaphysical theory, one which is not susceptible to the Third Man Argument. This fact in turn bears (although somewhat indirectly) on the vexed question of the place of the Timaeus in the chronology of Plato's works.

Culture and the plasticity of perception

2020 ◽  
Vol 43 ◽  
Author(s):  
Michael Lifshitz ◽  
T. M. Luhrmann
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Context ◽  
Sensory Experience ◽  
Cultural Learning ◽  
The World

Abstract Culture shapes our basic sensory experience of the world. This is particularly striking in the study of religion and psychosis, where we and others have shown that cultural context determines both the structure and content of hallucination-like events. The cultural shaping of hallucinations may provide a rich case-study for linking cultural learning with emerging prediction-based models of perception.

Psychological Contract Fulfillment and Employee Responses to Pay System Change

2017 ◽  
Vol 16 (4) ◽  
pp. 172-185 ◽  
Author(s):  
Christine J. Syrek ◽  
Conny H. Antoni
Keyword(s):  
Transformational Leadership ◽  
Psychological Contract ◽  
Pay For Performance ◽  
Psychological Contracts ◽  
Change Processes ◽  
Affective Organizational Commitment ◽  
Before And After ◽  
Psychological Contract Fulfillment ◽  
Pay System ◽  
Employee Responses

Abstract. The implementation of a new pay system is a balancing act that produces uncertainty and draws employees’ attention to the fulfillment of exchange agreements. Transformational leadership may be essential during these change processes. Based on psychological contract theory, we expected that transformational leadership impacts job satisfaction and affective organizational commitment through the fulfillment of relational psychological contracts, while the fulfillment of transactional psychological contracts may be crucial for employees’ pay and bonus satisfaction. We assessed 143 employees nested within 34 teams before and after (24 months) a pay for performance (pfp) system was introduced. Our results supported the mediation hypotheses considering job and pay satisfaction, but not considering commitment. Unexpectedly, the effect on bonus satisfaction was mediated via relational psychological contracts.

From Treatment Brands to Change Processes

1997 ◽  
Vol 42 (12) ◽  
pp. 1106-1107
Author(s):  
Barbara J. Menzel
Keyword(s):  
Change Processes

Attachment change processes in the early years of marriage.

1999 ◽  
Vol 76 (5) ◽  
pp. 783-802 ◽  
Author(s):  
Joanne Davila ◽  
Benjamin R. Karney ◽  
Thomas N. Bradbury
Keyword(s):  
Early Years ◽  
Change Processes
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