“American Beauty” plastic bag theme, Thomas Newman
Mendrisio
March 20, 2014
Designing Education for
Development
and Meaning:
Designing Education for
Development
and Meaning:
Teaching with
Analytic Psychology
Paul Shaker, PhD
professor emeritus
Simon Fraser University
British Columbia
Canada
www.paulshaker.com
Designing Education for
Development and
Meaning:
Teaching with
Analytic Psychology
Context…
Gabrielle Spiegel,
Johns Hopkins University
“The Task of the Historian,”
Presidential Address,
American Historical Association,
New York, January 2, 2009.
“think piece”…
a piece of writing meant to be
thought-provoking and
speculative that consists chiefly
of background material and
personal opinion and analysis
Design…
Design…
in light of theory
Modernism
•Empirical science leads to all knowledge
•Consensus
•Individualism, capitalism, urbanism,
industrialization are central
•European and North American
ascendance and colonization
•Technology, mass media, digitalization
•The forms of representative democracy
•The idea of progress and temporality
“Escaping Criticism” (1874) by Pere Borrell del Caso
Postmodernism
•difference, plurality, textuality, scepticism
•loss of a metanarrative and identity
•inventing new rules, changing the game
•role of chance and contingency
•subjectivation
“Campbell’s Soup Can (Tomato)” (1962) by Andy Warhol
Price realized, 2010, $9,042,500.
Post-postmodernism
•the expression of human values that are
non-material, such as spirituality
•a style of humanistic transparency and
sincerity, as opposed to irony and cynicism,
or faith in authority or tradition
•acceptance of intuition and feeling as ways
of knowing, in addition to thinking
“Epsom Kitchen” by John Bourne
Post-postmodernism
•an oscillation between…
a modern sincerity and a postmodern irony,
between hope and melancholy
and empathy and apathy
and unity and plurality
and purity and corruption
and naïveté and knowingness;
between control and commons
and craftsmanship and conceptualism
and pragmatism and utopianism.
www.metamodernism.com
“We Will Not Become What We Mean to You” by Barbara Kruger
Post-postmodernism
•Validates subjective, personal values
•authentically, without irony,
•and not limited to the material and logical,
•with acceptance of intuition and feeling.
Applications…
Bjarke Ingels
Architect
Copenhagen & New York
pragmatic utopianism
hedonistic sustainability
http://youtu.be/zDazAHIZOP0
Educate…
Educate…
for development and meaning
Develop…
Develop…
through addressing learning styles
“The 5 Levels of the
4 Jungian Functions”
John Fudjack & Patricia Dinkelaker (1995)
http://tap3x.net/ENSEMBLE/mpage3a.html
“…the definitions of 'thinking'
and 'sensing' that are in general
usage reflect a comparatively
higher level understanding…
“…the definitions of 'thinking'
and 'sensing' that are in general
usage reflect a comparatively
higher level understanding,
whereas what is normally meant by
the words 'feeling' and 'intuition'
refers to comparatively lower levels
of accomplishment with respect to
those functions.”
Levels of Feeling:
1. eruptions, emotionality
2. recognition of emotions & levels
3. processing emotion, reflecting
4. empathy, compassion
5. experiencing interdependence
Levels of Feeling:
1. eruptions, emotionality
Schadenfreude
2. recognition of emotions & levels
pity
3. processing emotion, reflecting
sympathy
4. empathy, compassion
empathy
5. experiencing interdependence
bodhisattva
The Bodhisattva Avalokiteshvara, Nepal, 14th C., by Donald Macauley
“All the sages preached a spirituality
of empathy and compassion; they
insisted that people must abandon
their egotism and greed, their
violence and unkindness.”
Karen Armstrong, The Great Transformation
“Remorse” by John Bourne
Levels of Intuition:
1. hunches, suspicions, “gut”
2. reflection on dreams, imagining
3. brainstorming, creating symbols
4. creating paradigms
5. defining one’s meaning
Levels of Intuition:
1. hunches, suspicions, “gut”
2. reflection on dreams, imagining
3. brainstorming, creating symbols
4. creating paradigms
5. defining one’s meaning
“Evolution of Consciousness” by Steve McIntosh (2007) after Ken Wilbur
Develop…
with awareness of transformations
The strength acquired at any stage is
tested by the necessity to transcend it
in such a way that the individual
can take chances in the next stage
with what was most vulnerably
precious in the previous one.
Erik Erikson, Childhood and Society
“Connoisseur” (1961) by Norman Rockwell
‘Why then, does this
accommodation remain…
superficial, and why does it not at
once lead to correcting the sensory
impression by rational truth?’
Jean Piaget, The Construction of Reality in the Child
‘Because…primitive
accommodation of thought… is
undifferentiated from a distorting
assimilation of reality to the self
and is at the same time oriented in
the opposite direction.’
Educate…
for development and meaning
Educate…
for meaning
Where the USA looks for
“modern” meaning…
present over future;
material over psychological;
logic over feeling;
monoculture over multiculture;
competition over community;
change over tradition;
individual over group.
Donald Trump
Where the USA looks for
“postmodern” meaning…
“The loss of a continuous metanarrative therefore breaks the
subject into heterogeneous
moments of subjectivity that do
not cohere into an identity.”
“The Postmodern Condition” (1984) J.-F. Lyotard
Andy Warhol self-portrait, silkscreen version sold for $27,522,500 in 2011
Where the USA looks for “postpostmodern” meaning…
Affirming subjective, personal
values authentically, without
irony. Values that are not limited
to the material and logical but
that address intuition and
feeling.
Where the USA looks for “postpostmodern” meaning…
Finding community, reflecting
on symbols, accepting
differences among others,
appreciating Nature.
As demonstrated by the confluence
of history, literature, and mass
media…
“…literary historicity is the
characteristic of representations
and assertions in prose that
qualify for inclusion in justified
belief, or knowledge of the
world.”
“The very fact that we are being
offered trauma, memory,
experience, and the sublime as
post-postmodern interests
should tell us clearly enough
that we are not turning back to
any place that looks empirical in
the old confident sense.”
“…if there are no permanent or
fixed forms anchoring thought
and expression, then high
degrees of pragmatic stability
and continuity of use will have
to serve the purpose…”
--Nancy Partner
For stability and use in developing
meaning…
Jung defines Self as the
"archetype of wholeness and the
regulating center of the psyche."
“The ego is the center of
consciousness, whereas the Self
is the center of the total
personality.”
As the Ego struggles in dreams,
so does the Self struggle in
waking life.
“Life is a dream of the Self.”
“Postgraduates” by John Bourne
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www.paulshaker.com
www.paulshaker.com
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