Private Revolution: I Is for Imagination
“Imagination is more important than knowledge. For while knowledge defines all we currently know and understand, imagination points to all we might yet discover and create.” ~ Albert Einstein
Dabrowski
Dabrowski’s Theory of Positive Disintegration: Wandering Upward
Multilevel disintegration is hierarchical and involves a set of higher and lower aims. It can last for a long time. Conflict and feelings of inferiority and guilt are directed toward oneself (we feel inferior to our own standards). We are active participants in the process, choosing to be self-aware.
Dabrowski’s Theory of Positive Disintegration: The Awakening of Self-Awareness
The third in a series of Sunday posts about Kazimierz Dabrowski’s Theory of Positive Disintegration. This week’s topic: awakening to self-awareness.
Attitudes and Qualities of Personality
Dabrowskian development is aspirational. We don’t simply wait for changes to happen; we participate in them and strive for something bigger and better, even to the point of overcoming biological and societal forces.
Sidetracked by Dabrowski
Dabrowskian development is one of learning not to be controlled by social and biological forces. A strong developmental instinct helps us instead to choose a life that is more in keeping with the person we want to be, rather than who we are or who we were, especially when who we should be is in conflict with more primitive instincts.