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| The space around me |
| This is a collection of htm / html documents created from text written from 1989 to present. The formate allows (1) to navigate within and between files, and (2) their tying up into topics with respective index lines. The selected topics try to inquire into the whole extention of the space accessible to scientific exploration. Here, space includes, in addition to its physical meening, also the distance separating each individual from the others. |
| According to our unintended appearance as an isolated person among several others, who shared this fate before us, and to our plain helplessness in these early moments, we desperately need this first environment for a critical period of time. It was Sigmund Freud who coined the label 'psychic apparatus' for the first motoric and sensory aptitudes resulting from our attemps to react to this interactive situation . |
| So it was up to us to explore as a newborn infant not only our physical, but also our social space. Infact both processes occurred simultaneously in a multiply interwoven way. We accomplished this complex task according to our genes and to the dynamic structure of our first environment, including physical, alimentory and many other conditions. |
| If we now subdue to the task to analyze what has become of this space in our adulthood, raised up and instructed diligently in logical thinking, in language and in reading and writing, we have to make reasonable use of this 'psychic apparatus' of ours, to the aspired effect to be understood by subjects commanding a similar (though never identical) apparatus. This will allow productive interaction between matching partners. |
| Such task meets several problems. (1) As just mentioned, you can never be sure that any vis-à-vis catches spontaneously the meaning of what you are saying / writing. (2) The way you expand your thoughts may, to some listeners / readers, appear cumbersome or strange, often due to formal aspects required for the build-up of logical argument. For some of them, these formal aspects may sometimes divert attention from the semantic content, leading (at least temporarely) to confusion. (3) In the extreme, this 2nd problem may even cause - offending - derision. |
| Already as a child, I often was confronted with this last type of misunderstanding, very much to my embarrassment. This discouraging experience did not miss its effect on the shaping of my personal apparatus. It somehow refused to develop into normal completeness and left me as an adult with sociophobia. My psychological state may be ranked among the numerous autistic spectrum disorders (although I never received any such diagnosis). |
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