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On Using Appreciative Language in Constructing Promising/Illusionistic Realities
Author(s) -
Malinen Tapio
Publication year - 2001
Publication title -
australian and new zealand journal of family therapy
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.297
H-Index - 19
eISSN - 1467-8438
pISSN - 0814-723X
DOI - 10.1002/j.1467-8438.2001.tb01329.x
Subject(s) - nothing , postmodernism , project commissioning , publishing , aesthetics , dance , sociology , product (mathematics) , media studies , psychoanalysis , epistemology , literature , philosophy , psychology , art , geometry , mathematics
This article is a carnival: besides Peter Lang, the protagonist it gives appearance and voice to many other people, as in a play or dance. In this dialogue, facts are not considered to be anything given; they are constructed in the relationships and interactions, thoughts formulate themselves in the carnival whirl of language. The postmodern team appearing in the article have taken their voices from the literature. They are saying partly what they have said in print partly what they might have said – or will be saying in the future. What happened to the director of the discussion was the same thing that can, in a best‐case scenario, happen to a therapist: the director was simultaneously the writer and the product of the story. Through it he died and was reborn. You can never predict the future through the past because the past changes all the time (Mihail Bakhtin). To be systemic means you accept everything, defy everything, accept nothing. Life is like a carnival or like a parody (Peter Lang).