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Monday, 12 July 2010

Personal Constructs, Binary Oppositions and Deconstruction

Lupton (1994) notes that western culture since plato / aristotle has been govened by various linguistic oppositions, and has valued one side of the them over the other. One of the tasks of Deconstruction has been to identify these oppositions. Identify the dominant terms and redress the balance.
We all have our own biases which can be identified in terms of such oppositions
They can be explored using the methods of Personal Construct Psychology They can be used in a number of ways, in relation to primary secondary, and tertiary research data for example:
Researching and Identifying popular dualities/binary oppositions in regard to the constructs Linguistic Flow.

To restate, it is possible to explore the definition an individual has of "Knowledge" (Form) and "Intuition"(Flow), are these considered opposite? Is knowledge a part of intuition , or intuition a part of knowledge?

Is knowledge a dirty word? (e.g. INTUITION /Squareness ;)? Is intuition a dirty word? (e.g. KNOWLEDGE<<'irrelevance'>]<'madness'> ). Here is depicted the drift towards logocentrism: where one side of the duality is exclusively valued as positive (good) and the other negative(bad), or perhaps less fundamentally? Normal – Abnormal, and Boring – Interesting]. 

Is it possible to faciilitate the individual to explore other, perhaps complimentary constructs?

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