Comments on: Rediscovering completeness

By: teodora

teodora — Mon, 26 Mar 2007 09:04:35 +0000

I tend to feel more complete when I feel more empty. But my world is upside down anyway

By: kulcsi

kulcsi — Sun, 25 Mar 2007 11:07:12 +0000

Csikszentmihályi has pointed out that flow can be linked not only to joy or some sort of happiness. Flow is finally a state of mind, an experience of connection between the active voice and the object. One can have this experience even on a funeral. I think flow is about feeling completeness, it is about feeling the union between you and the outworld.

Yes, it concerns perception, but the Gestalt psychology goes further and explains many psychic phenomena from this point of view. It is very regrettable fact that Gestalt psychology has sabbotaged by the first and second world waar. The principles developed by this school had big impact on humanistic psychology on the fifties. Gestaltism was a really holistic approach…

By: Attila Borcsa

Attila Borcsa — Sun, 25 Mar 2007 09:16:16 +0000

Thanks for pointing out the Gestalt connection. I am not 100% sure, but as far as I remember it concerns perception. Which still is related to holistic approaches.

Regarding the flow, I am not quite sure how you mean it. My approach is more likely to be understood if you think of Jung’s syncronicity. When the inner and the outer are in perfect concordance. Isn’t flow more about experiencing happiness in some sort of action?

By: kulcsi

kulcsi — Sun, 25 Mar 2007 06:45:42 +0000

This principle of whole-sum was expressed very well in Gestalt psychology.
In the other hand I think the completness experience can be linked to the concept of flow discovered by Csikszentmihályi Mihály.