On Dialectic Paradox, Health, Pathology, Evolution, Alienation and Integration

Man's 'mind-brain-body' is like a swimming pool full of dichotomies, paradoxes, multiple bi-polarities, desires, restraints, too many desires and not enough restraints, or not enough desires and too many restraints, too much planning or not enough planning, too much thinking or not enough thinking, too aggressive or too approval-seeking, and on and on we could go...

We swim -- and sometimes drown -- in this swimming pool full of dichotomies, paradoxes, bipolarities and oftentimes, underlying hypocrisies or 'dissociated, disconnected, alienated ego-states' in the personality that are not properly integrated into the rest of the personality, into the 'whole of the personality'.

The goal of most dialectic bi-polar psychotherapies -- Psychoanalysis, Jungian Psychology, Gestalt Therapy, Transactional Analysis -- including this DGB approach here, is to help bring about more 'wholistic multi-dialectic, multi-bi-polar, integration' both inside and outside of the personality.

-- dgb, Sept. 27th, 2009.

Evolution -- is 'multiple-bi-polar-dialectic-evolution'. Everything comes about either from 'power over' or from 'integrative union'. Where destruction or anhiliation is not the goal, the second type of evolution among men -- integrative union -- usually works much better with far less human tragedy, traumacy, 'insurgency', and casualties. Not all of the time but most of the time -- dgb, Sept. 27th, 2009.

Physical and psycho-pathology are differentiated -- but similar -- in that they both need to be located on a continuum of a multitude of swinging pendulums of health, balance ('The Golden Mean', 'The Middle Path' -- Aristotle) vs. extremism, extreme swings of the pendulum -- and the resulting physical and/or psycho-pathology that comes with extremism over the edge and into the darkest abyss of humanity, non-humanity, and/or ultimately death.

-- dgb, Sept. 27th, 2009.