Amenina Karina. In Greek tragedy, fate or destiny is a personal reality. To this the Man/Hero must, sooner or later, succumb. The individual is a product of historical, social and psychological co-configurations. On the other hand, "autonomy" implies that we can, with the help of our free will, rise - at least above necessity.
Will
Free will with the passage of centuries - and religions - becomes a quality with which man was provided by "God", so that he knows how to distinguish and choose between Good and Evil. With the almighty belief that explanation and understanding would free him from the grip of history, modern Man hoped to overcome whatever forces of destiny. Reflection, intuitive understanding and insight can ultimately be liberating.
Brain
The brain has individual characteristics. But the mind is a field phenomenon. It's a network, it's a web. There is no one mind alone. It takes others to expand the network, and expansion can be, in itself, restorative. "Experience is not more 'subjective' than 'objective', it is not more 'internal' than 'external', it is not more mental than physical" (RD Laing, 1967).
Environment
It is contained in a social link, a material environment or an ecosystem. Rather than an individualized response to the world, it is necessarily relational, shaped within a regime of 'senses'. Normative placement of experience determines what is perceptible or unperceptible, visible or invisible, audible or inaudible within the social order.
Aspects
The individual and the social are two aspects of the same process that shape an ever-changing pattern of communicative interaction. This interaction produces further interaction. There is only process. No system, no inner world, no social system, no inside, no outside, no theory, no practice. All are considered part of the same process and are not differentiated for the sake of differentiation.
Present
The concept of the inner world becomes obsolete and the living present becomes a cyclical concept of time, in which at every moment, people construct their past as the basis of their expectation of their future. In the concept of the living present there is no distinction between "here and now" and "there and then". Reconstructions of the past are thus not a simple recall from long-term memory, but rather ever-changing narratives.
Standards
We measure ourselves against the imaginary standards of a "mentally healthy" person. A person devoid of psychological pain. The therapeutic worldview assumes that the ideal model of man is one who does not suffer mentally. The uninjured. Our lifestyle and psychotherapeutic procedures are intended to bring us closer to this ideal. In the future world where there is no more pain. Where the pain has sunk into oblivion. Where health will prevail over disease – life will conquer death. The world will exist without darkness (RD Stacey,2003).
Rupture
In this rupture with ourselves, in our inner rupture and in the inner rupture of our world we meet. Diving into the dark night of the soul, we meet the soul of each of us, since the darkness of the soul is all we really have in common. Our inner breakdown, brokenness, dysfunction, tragedy and absurdity express who we truly are. The very act of placing the recognition of the inevitability of pain in a context where the primary intention is to seek a cure is already therapeutic. In this context it is impossible to honestly state its elemental and inevitable nature. Pain can only be reported in the context of treatment, not as pain. The therapeutic framework contradicts and invalidates the claim of the inevitability of suffering.
Error
Maybe we humans are an evolutionary mistake. Whose primary manifestation is hyper-developed consciousness. Freud states that life is impossible without defense mechanisms. Everything we do in life—from our most embarrassing foibles to our grandest endeavors, literally every human activity—can be exhaustively explained away as an attempt to escape, silence, or make sense of inevitable pain.
Effort
Everything we do can essentially be seen as an attempt to escape the tragedy of our existence, but this attempt is always futile. The whole of life that we are able to observe today in front of our eyes is - from the inside to the outside - immersed in repression mechanisms - social and individual.
*Cover photo: The powerless heads, Ninas cantores, 1920