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Existential Review Part 22, USE CONTRADICTIONS, POLARITIES, PARADOXES & AMBIGUITIES - Sasha Lessin, Ph.D., sashalessinphd@aol.com 808 244-4103
[Based on Koestenbaum, P., The New Image of the Person: The Theory
and Practice of Clinical Psychology, Connecticut: Greenwood Press, 1978.]
Now that you have familiarized yourself with the ideals in the first 4 lessons,
continue the exploration of the existential model with Ideal 5. Share your reactions to the existential explorations and let others benefit from your explorations.
USE CONTRADICTIONS, POLARITIES, PARADOXES AND AMBIGUITIES TO ESTABLISH DIALOGUES LEADING TO FURTHER GROWTH (Ideal 19)
When you live by this ideal, Koestenbaum indicates, you say to yourself, "When faced with contradictions in life I am challenged. I realize that values and situations are usually ambiguous and unclear. There are many sides to most issues. I feel no compulsion to discover always and absolute right. I can act in spite of uncertainty. I can make decisions in spite of ambiguities. I can make commitments without being certain of the truth. I can tolerate disagreement, opposition, rejection, and denial. Contradictions are to be a source of strength, because I find polarities within myself. I can integrate the polar opposites in me and achieve a mature sense of wholeness." [ibid. p 42]]
* Describe a time when you found a contradiction within yourself and you brought the two sides into a satisfying blend.
* How do you evaluate your learning in this course? How many hours did it take you to complete the amount of homework you completed? How do you imagine I would evaluate your work?
Review: THE EXISTENTIAL PRINCIPLES (See each on this site):
Realize the reciprocal INTERPLAY between you and what you experience; learn of field theory, intentionality.
Experience yourself at several LEVELS OF CONSCIOUSNESS.
Acknowledge that you are responsible; CHOOSE your attitudes and reactions.
Consciously experience your ever-developing sense of yourself as an individual and as humanity (phenomenologically SELF-DISCLOSE.)
Value PAIN and ANXIETY as opportunities to learn.
Use limits to make your life meaningful; reflect upon NEGATION, FINITUDE and DEATH.
Live and reflect using phenomenological bracketing (EPOCHE)
Be INDEPENDENT, SELF-RELIANT and SUBJECTIVE (to balance out love and commitment.)
Realize your own unique, creative INDIVIDUALITY.
Experience TRANSCENDENTAL SUBJECTIVITY; revere this core self of each and all consciousness.
Realize you are free to CHOOSE your own values and self-concepts
Accept GUILT for your choices as signals to do better.
Say YES to life. COMMIT yourself.
Be REALISTIC.
LOVE and encounter others.
Be FLEXIBLE and adaptable
Experience time living now, using the past, focused on your future.
GROW; expand and transcend your self-definition.
Use contradictions, polarities, paradoxes and ambiguities as opportunities to establish dialogues and DIALECTICS leading to further growth.
sashalessinphd@aol.com
[Based on Koestenbaum, P., The New Image of the Person: The Theory
and Practice of Clinical Psychology, Connecticut: Greenwood Press, 1978.]
Now that you have familiarized yourself with the ideals in the first 4 lessons,
continue the exploration of the existential model with Ideal 5. Share your reactions to the existential explorations and let others benefit from your explorations.
USE CONTRADICTIONS, POLARITIES, PARADOXES AND AMBIGUITIES TO ESTABLISH DIALOGUES LEADING TO FURTHER GROWTH (Ideal 19)
When you live by this ideal, Koestenbaum indicates, you say to yourself, "When faced with contradictions in life I am challenged. I realize that values and situations are usually ambiguous and unclear. There are many sides to most issues. I feel no compulsion to discover always and absolute right. I can act in spite of uncertainty. I can make decisions in spite of ambiguities. I can make commitments without being certain of the truth. I can tolerate disagreement, opposition, rejection, and denial. Contradictions are to be a source of strength, because I find polarities within myself. I can integrate the polar opposites in me and achieve a mature sense of wholeness." [ibid. p 42]]
* Describe a time when you found a contradiction within yourself and you brought the two sides into a satisfying blend.
* How do you evaluate your learning in this course? How many hours did it take you to complete the amount of homework you completed? How do you imagine I would evaluate your work?
Review: THE EXISTENTIAL PRINCIPLES (See each on this site):
Realize the reciprocal INTERPLAY between you and what you experience; learn of field theory, intentionality.
Experience yourself at several LEVELS OF CONSCIOUSNESS.
Acknowledge that you are responsible; CHOOSE your attitudes and reactions.
Consciously experience your ever-developing sense of yourself as an individual and as humanity (phenomenologically SELF-DISCLOSE.)
Value PAIN and ANXIETY as opportunities to learn.
Use limits to make your life meaningful; reflect upon NEGATION, FINITUDE and DEATH.
Live and reflect using phenomenological bracketing (EPOCHE)
Be INDEPENDENT, SELF-RELIANT and SUBJECTIVE (to balance out love and commitment.)
Realize your own unique, creative INDIVIDUALITY.
Experience TRANSCENDENTAL SUBJECTIVITY; revere this core self of each and all consciousness.
Realize you are free to CHOOSE your own values and self-concepts
Accept GUILT for your choices as signals to do better.
Say YES to life. COMMIT yourself.
Be REALISTIC.
LOVE and encounter others.
Be FLEXIBLE and adaptable
Experience time living now, using the past, focused on your future.
GROW; expand and transcend your self-definition.
Use contradictions, polarities, paradoxes and ambiguities as opportunities to establish dialogues and DIALECTICS leading to further growth.
sashalessinphd@aol.com
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