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This lunchtime Reading Group is being held in East Melbourne
We will discuss the following two excerpts from writings of J.L Moreno:
The biological picture of an individual places the psyche within the
body (as an epiphenomenon). In the sociometric [and psychodramatic] picture of
the individual (person), the psyche appears as outside of the body, the body is
surrounded by the psyche, and the psyche is surrounded by, and interwoven, into
the social and cultural atom.
– J. L. Moreno, Sociometry and
the Cultural Order
A truly
therapeutic procedure cannot have less an objective than
the whole
of mankind. But no adequate therapy can be prescribed as long as mankind is not
a unity in some fashion and as long as its organization remains unknown. It
helped us in the beginning to think, although we had no definite proof for it,
that mankind is a social and organic unity. Once we had chosen this principle
as our guide another idea developed of necessity. If this whole of mankind is a unity, then
tendencies must emerge between the different parts of this unity drawing them
at one time apart and drawing them at another time together. These tendencies
may be sometimes advantageous for the parts and disadvantageous for the whole
or advantageous for some parts and disadvantageous for other parts. A number of scant proofs have been
uncovered which indicate that such a unity of mankind does exist. Its organization develops and distributes
itself in space apparently according to a law of social gravity, which seems to
be valid for every kind of grouping irrespective of the membership.
JL Moreno Who
Shall Survive?
Reference: PSYCHODRAMA, SOCIOMETRY,
SOCIODRAMA AND SOCIATRY
Edward Schreiber
All enquiries and RSVP to Sue Daniel (Moderator) 0417 586 791
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LUNCHTIME READING GROUP
Where? 104 Simpson St, East Melbourne
Cost? $10.00 donation toward resourcing the 'Zerka T.
Moreno' library.
Tea and freshly brewed coffee provided. Please
bring your own lunch.
When?
Friday, 31 October 2014 from 12.45 - 1.45 p.m sharp
Email
Enquiries for October Reading Group:
pim@netspace.net.au
