THE BASIC DICHOTOMY IN TEACHING EMANCIPATORY GROUP WORK- IDENTITY VERSUS INTERACTION
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The concept of identity, from which behavioral rules are derived, is a necessary device in economics, technology, law, and other normative disciplines. Identity helps to maintain control, precision, and a smooth functioning of non-living systems. It is a basic principle of one type of rationality, which, expressed in psychological terms, is a relatively simple type of information processing. This information processing aspect of identity, though convenient for "technological progress" becomes a menace to the very continuation oflife processes and to the well being of living creatures. It is evident that this principle of identity predominates our industrial civilization thus threatening our freedom and integrity. Only recently, interest has been generated in methods which enable the person to emancipate himself/herself from the suffering of identity fixations and allow for experiencing " the ongoing flow of events that occur continuously in the individual" (Gendlin, 1961), "the interpersonal feelings hitherto fully unnoticed" (Moreno, 1937, p.14) and the insight that there is "a difference between the map and the landscape." (Korzybski, 1933).
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