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To: Jacques Chitte who wrote (12070)1/3/2011 4:03:01 PM
From: Solon  Respond to of 69300
 
I am not sure where that phrase started up but the actual psychology of gestalt was quite heady whereas the practice was experiential and letting go of mind. The main idea is how "figure" and "ground" are perceived as a whole but it is anything but simple.

In the therapy, the moment of wholeness was likened to sort of an eureka, "got it" experience when figure and ground became one. Sort of like being swallowed by a great fish...

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