Synthesis philosophica, Vol. 29 No. 2, 2014.
Original scientific paper
A New Way of Thinking – About Anything – and How to Write From It
Eugene T. Gendlin
; The Focusing Institute, Nyack, NY, United States
Abstract
A Process Model employs a new way of thinking which continually exceeds given concepts and assumptions, including its own. In order to understand the Process Model, the reader must refer directly to their own bodily-felt experience in the reading process because the new concepts mean the implicit change they make in the reading interaction itself. We fundamentally do not separate saying and what the saying is “about.” In the new model, saying is a change in what it is “about” and also a change in what can now be further said. The project, we could say, is to move beyond the old notion of language as one-to-one label relations, which mistakenly assumes that what is “real” already must have the kind of order which conceptual formulations have. We instead reverse the order by putting the living interaction first and making conceptual structure derivative. Actual events are always more intricate than how they can be conceptually formulated. By directly referring to this experiential “more,” to the intricate felt thickness of the situation or question, one then has a new particular from which one can speak, make new concepts, and move beyond the old logical determinacy. Now thinking and philosophy can explicitly work in a more-thanlogical relationship with “what” it is “about,” and also in a logical way whenever that is wanted. This paper offers some help for the reader and for those who wish to use the new model in their work.
Keywords
body-environment interaction; Carrying Forward; concepts; consciousness; direct reference; Focusing; implicit; implying; interaction first; interaffecting; Process Model
Hrčak ID:
142424
URI
Publication date:
24.4.2015.
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