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Napoli

31 января 2016 г., 21:36

To follow or encourage a growth direction is very different from promoting a set of values... Good and bad must be rethought just as all notions of content must be rethought.

Gendlin is careful to protect an unfolding experience from being dumped upon by something "positive". he does not want a predefined "good" or "bad" label applied to what is still in process. The process changes its description and therefore what "good", "bad", "positive", "negative", "optimism" and "pessimism" even mean. (...)

(...) the energy of the forward moment is not optimism or preference for the positive. It comes, in fact, as one is both separate from and in touch with one's negatives. The life energy that is released from "being-with" any experience is what is valued, not some preference for "positive" and "optimism". A description that sounds pessimistic is no less valid id it resonates with life experiencing. (...)

But what kind of "pessimism" is also life-affirming? (...) exhilarating pessimism: the expansive feeling of bodily resonance even when the content looks negative, even hopeless. The "life energy" is released by acknowledging how things really are, without any spin that they are moving towards something sunnier. "Exhilarating pessimism" is a re-thinking of pessimism that in fact prioritizes the bodily experience above cultural norms, even the contemporary demand to find the positive in everything.

(...) here the "pessimism" is not negative but an antidote, a corrective to the claustrophobic insistence of "positive". It is the attempt to connect with what actually exists without any spin, the valuing of truth rather than convention, happiness, or even health.

(...) The pessimism reminds us that life is fleeting and not under our control. All striving is in some sense futile, all claims to "knowledge" in some sense arrogance.

(...) Exhilarating pessimism develops from wanting to realistically confront our human condition. (...) It is an attempt to value what is "true" over what is "life affirming" in conventional terms of happy, adjusted, and comfortable.