Deepening a child and youth care understanding of presence: Engaging living - dying
dialectical moments - Ranahan
The three
dialectical moments of testimony — event and meaning, the trial of false testimony, and testimony about what is seen and of a life — find their echo, their reverberation, in the movement of consciousness that renounces its sovereignty.
Negation is here an essential objectification and hence distancing of oneself from prevailing cultural and intrapsychic images and preunderstandings, and consequently
a dialectical moment of necessary alienation on the way to freedom and truth.
Not exact matches
In a
dialectical vision, real being, i.e., the sacred, appears in the eschatological
moment only after man's ontological ground in the world has been destroyed.
Earlier, to «cling to being» was to close oneself to the sacred; now, the
dialectical affirmation of being in the immediate
moment is an epiphany of the sacred.
Arising out of a process of differentiation from transcendent order, the idea of society stands, from the very
moment of its birth, in a
dialectical tension with the concept of the individual.
A truly
dialectical leap of faith is inseparable from its ground in an absolutely profane
moment of time and space.
By way of one such attempt at a new paradigm for biblical studies, I propose a
dialectical hermeneutic whose dynamic
moments might be schematically outlined as follows:
And of course the
moment the absolute extreme was reached it would immediately become transformed into its
dialectical opposite — friendship.
In this struggle, the major conflict is with the unchecked individualism of civil society, or the «system of needs,» both real and imaginary.17 This
dialectical process has in Hegel's modern world surpassed the stage of revolution, which in the shape of the French Revolution was itself a necessary
moment in the process by which the emergence of the state occurred.
He wrote, «Every
moment is no doubt a passing link in the great flux, but is also an eternity in itself», and added, «The method of
dialectical materialism informed by spirituality may unravel the movement of history; the method of spirituality informed by
dialectical materialism may raise the edifice of being» (Marx, Gandhi and Socialism p. 373 - 4.)
The exhibitionary
moment becomes a magical space to tackle larger themes of the
dialectical relationship between reality and artifice, how we understand our existence, knowledge and power.
DBT (
Dialectical Behavior Therapy) helps to develop skills to increase the ability to practice mindfulness and be present in the
moment... LEARN MORE
Dialectical behavior therapy gives people skills to live in the present
moment and to observe, alter the intensity of, and change feeling states.
Many of my psychotherapy patients ask for a
Dialectical Behavior Therapy or DBT cheat - sheet to have handy when: life happens, you feel overwhelmed, and you can't seem to remember what to do in the
moment!