Gestalt Flashcards
Phenomena
Has no actual, real, properties; no real parts, no real changes, no causality
Phenomenology
The study of the here and now
Noumena
What something is in itself, independent of our sensations
Phenomena
Our sensory knowledge of things or actions in the external world
What is real?
The only reality is out own intersubjectivity
Phenomenal field
Organized by laws: gestalt perceptual laws
Law of unit formation Law of closure Law of good shape Law of good continuation Law of proximity
Gestalt
Goals bring about integrated functioning
Acceptance of aspects if one’s personality that have been
Awareness and dialogue: being in touch with ones own existence with what is
Theory of change:
Children elusive introverted ideals, leading to enforces morality.
With awareness, self-acceptance, the organism can grow
Organismic self-regulation
We are motivated I solve problems
Hierarchy of needs moving from figure I ground
Disturbances at the boundary(connecting and withdrawing)
Isolation
Confluence( loss of the experience of separateness)
Top dog/under dog
Top dog: righteous, authoritarian, moralistic
Underdog: manipulative, plays victim, defensive, helpless
Constant struggle for control
Empty chair technique
Extension of continuum of awareness
Paradoxical theory of change
The paradox is that the more ones tries to become who one is not, the more one stays the same
Gestalt theory aims at:
Self-knowledge, acceptance, and growth by immersion in current existence, aligning contact, awareness, and experimentation with what is actually happening in the moment
Three names in gestalt
Fredrick perls
Husserl: phenomenology
Kant: observer of action
Fall goodman
