Tuesday, August 18, 2009

Somatic Meaning ~ bringing images out of the body

Non-linguistic communication allows for multi-modal expression without verbal symbolisation. Embodied language can be made visible / 'readable' without wholesale reliance on a knowledge of paralinguistic modes. By tapping 'other ways of knowing' and bringing them to consciousness via images it is possible to honour 'silenced languages' and ancient pools of wisdom. Cultural chauvinism has its roots in a tangle of words.

sea horses/vase/brain stem/hogs with tiaras and piglets?

Hermann Rorschach's Psychodiagnostik, still used, provides a limited scientific access to the interpretation of personality, claiming to be a study of individual perception ~ it is open to bias as a diagnostic tool and ignores context.



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