Thursday, December 31, 2020

being vs. becoming (critical psychotherapy)

「But orthodox understanding of the clinic relegates change to the periphery, putting identity, the identity of pathos, at the centre. It is here that Deleuze’s project provides such a powerful alternative to approach the clinic. With the move from identity to difference, change and transformation become central. It is thus essential for the clinic to come to terms with Deleuze’s insistence that what best describes our human condition is not the concept of static beings but of fluid becomings.」

Maria Nichterlein, John R. Morss, John Morss (2017) Deleuze and Psychology: Philosophical Provocations to Psychological Practices (Concepts for Critical Psychology), Routledge, kindle location 3397/4574. 

now, 比較合理可行的是, 輕症的尋找 becoming, 重症的尋找 being

但上述的前提是, 治療者熟稔 being vs. becoming 的人生的辛苦, 且其本身的狀態是, becoming > being, 意思是說, 他自己必須曾病得不輕