Theory of language by Eugene Gendlin

TOKUMARU Satoko

doi:10.24581/kaichi.23.0_109

Eugene Gendlin is known as the founder of the psychological technique of focusing. He continued his philosophical research throughout his life and developed his own theory of language. He characterized language as having two aspects: one that gives rise to a general meaning common to all users (universal aspect), and the other is a bodily sensory aspect that gives rise to individual meanings for each user and is a sense implicit in the body. He defined the character as the duality of language. He described bodily processes, including cells, plants, and animals, as interactions between the body and the environment. He modeled the continuous life process as the fulfillment of ”absence” in response to environmental changes, which he called ”occurring into implying”. He argued that the process which words come from ”readiness to speak” is also part of this process. He created the concept of ”patterns themselves” that can function between logic and bodily implying and modeled “doubling (tripling).” He emphasized the importance of thinking with the interaction between logic and bodily implying and proposed a method of thinking called TAE (Thinking At the Edge), which was developed from his theory of language.

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