| Topic: | Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:NLP Changework vs. Therapy and Coaching |
| Posted by: | John Schertzer |
| Date/Time: | 25/04/2003 14:40:43 |
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nj, I think you've got it backwards. First of all I was talking about something like a science of representations as related to art, though something distinct from it. It would be more related to science and philosophy, since those fields might benefit from a higher logical level understanding of their own representations. In fact there is a "philosophy of science" which attempts to handle this area already. And I don't think artists need worry anyway. There are countless manifestos and aesthetic doctrines floating around, and the role they tend to play, more than any other, is as a position to react against. There always has been a bit of the paranoia you've mentioned, and lit critic, Harold Bloom, has even dedicated his career to exploring this effect, mainly from a Freudian perspective. If anything, what artists do, an artist of quality that is, is offer up representations, or possibilities of representation, that hadn't been imagined previously. They lead the codification process, and continually disrupt it. One might say, for instance, that Impressionism was a necessary precursor to the flowering of atomic physics, though impressionist painters were mainly concerned with exploiting new knowledge about the rods and cones in the eye, and reacting to the development of photography. The point is, there is no possible way to codify any kind of knowledge that would censure the imaginations of people who will imagine things differently. And centrally I was talking about the possibility of NLP applications being useful in this open-ended process, as an alternative to thinking of NLP as specifically a coaching or therapeutic tool. Note: reading comprehension is a good skill to develop. Lastly, no artist worth her salt is determined by a desire to express herself. Self-expression is the seed of bad art. John Cage's dictum is that art is for changing oneself, not for expressing oneself. And I'll add to that: self-exploration. best, JS |