A full attack on role theory ... kicked off by Dr Phil Carter.
Perhaps i am ready to launch a full on attack on role theory.
How about this:-
When personality is central, response and attention to the forces of life and spirit can easily become diffuse and scattered. When there is love for the life in the present, for the experience of presence, there is freedom and movement. This 'love' for spontaneity is warm-up. An attitude of readiness, willingness and attention to what is emerging and being lived can be called warm-up.
Role theory must be junior to spontaneity. Role theory must serve the purpose of warm-up, to evoke spontaneity.
"there is no need for an ultimate definition of roles ... they are created before our eyes .... They define themselves as they emerge from status nascendi to full mature shape." (Moreno, Vol 1, p. 340).
One must be very careful in doing any personality analysis, that it does not result in any kind of smugness or even knowing, as that will create an extra barrier to the fresh experience of the emerging life.
The flow of articulate life ... response by Peter Howie
Morning, afternoon!
Each of your posts is additional and modified and each is great. Great because they provoke stuff … I liked everything including your discovery of Evan’s quote. Moreno quotes out of context or out of the body in which he wrote them become menacingly intriguing.
How about I put our emails on the blog ‘as is’. That's the purpose of a blog - mucking around, refining, blowing up, refining, starting again.…
More on role theory - the continuance of Phil Carter
Probably. I’ve modified the last one and added a couple more thoughts. Have a look at it. Then send it back. I will read it and see if it can go out into the blog…
When personality is central, response and attention to the forces of life and spirit can easily become diffuse and scattered. When there is love for the life in the present, for the experience of presence, there is freedom and movement. This ‘love’ for spontaneity is warm-up. An attitude of readiness, willingness and attention to what is emerging and being lived can be called warm-up.
Role theory must be junior to spontaneity. Role theory must serve the purpose of warm-up, to evoke spontaneity.
“there is no need for an ultimate definition of roles … they are created before our eyes …. They define themselves as they emerge from status nascendi to full mature shape.” (Moreno, Vol 1, p. 340).
One must be very careful in doing any personality analysis, that it does not result in any kind of smugness or knowing that will create an extra barrier to the fresh experience of the emerging life.…
The question was ... will I/Wont I - Peter Howie
The question was ...?
May I put all versions up to highlight the drafting and exploratory nature of a blog?
In it goes. All of it - Phil Carter
Love the intent to illustrate progression of thinking in a relational field.
The structure becomes reflective of the content, ie warmup, which is always to the immediate life now, including the immediate and current response to the artefact, construct, meaning that kicks in a milli-second after, building its monotrous life of abstraction.
Put that in too. In it goes. All of it. Warm-up.
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