Re: [xmca] What does "separation" mean

[mike cole <lchcmike@gmail.com>]

The term, separation, as people are using it here, seems to be similar if
not the same as a discussion involving Jaan Valsiner and Barbara Rogoff with
respect to person/environment and in various discussions of how to
understand "context."

I think recovering those prior discussions might help here.
mike

On Wed, Jul 20, 2011 at 7:25 AM, Michael Glassman <MGlassman@ehe.osu.edu>wrote:

> Hi Larry,
>
> Do you think Shotter is right, I mean that separation is usually associated
> with space.  The earliest ideas of separation in the social sciences I can
> think of seems to come from Freud, who wasn't concerned about physical
> separation at all, and doesn't seem to conceputalize it that way.  Maybe
> space comes later with the dominance of measurement?
>
> Michael
>
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> Subject: [xmca] What does "separation" mean
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> I wanted to ask others to reflect on the meaning of "separation" as it
> seems
> central to notions of opposition and chiasmic intertwining. John Shotter
> states
>
> "the very word "separation" as such is misleading: it suggests separation
> in
> a spatial sense - we need to realize that the qualitative differences OF
> SUCCESSIVE MOMENTS cannot be captured in spatial imagery:  to differ
> qualitatively and to be distinct in space are two quite different notions.
>
> Separation and differentiation as word meanings are common sense terms used
> to describe developmental processes but I wonder if we are  sharing common
> responses to these word meaninings?
>
> Larry
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