#gestalt theory

[lucidsdog]

a goat and a walrus i made on adobe illustrator

[crimsonmonsoon]

Some gestalt theory work for my design class. Gotta pick one to refine for my final project :’) These are just sketches. The horrors are coming.

(If you know, yes these are Sharu Valley shenanigans)

[schizoidvision]

Dr Elinor Greenberg Interview

Topic Areas - Schizoid Adaptations, Childhood, Object Relations, and the Possibility of the Onset of Schizophrenia

[hyperfixater-extrordinare]

Who up writing they thesis rn.

[lead-academy]

Mastering Gestalt Therapy: Online Training Course

Gestalt Therapy Training Course Online provides an excellent opportunity for individuals seeking to learn about Gestalt therapy. This course equips participants with the knowledge and skills necessary to provide patients with effective therapy sessions that are grounded in the Gestalt approach. Students can study at their convenience, as the course is fully online, and receive a comprehensive understanding of the essential concepts of Gestalt therapy, including awareness, the Here & Now, relationship, and contact. Participating in this course empowers individuals to become Gestalt therapists with the capability to offer compassionate and effective therapy to support their clients' well-being.Here is the course link:https://lead-academy.org/course/gestalt-therapy-online-course

[imaginationstimulation]

...Last year, Zekun Sun and Chaz Firestone at Johns Hopkins University, USA, concluded that there is a probably a Goldilocks porridgy zone of art. Not too complex, not too simple, not too square, but just right.

In their paper ‘Beautiful on the inside: Aesthetic preferences and the skeletal complexity of shapes’ published in Perception (August 2022), they try to untangle the relationship between aesthetics and complexity with a novel experimental approach using information-theory.

They represented an object based on an internal “skeleton”; a kind of blueprint that can be analysed for its level of “surprise” — a measure of how predictable or unpredictable one part of the skeleton is given another part. One way to capture this is to imagine a person walking along the skeleton of a shape; the more often this person changes direction (such that their next step was not easily predictable from their previous step), the higher the surprise factor of their walk. In most ways, curved objects are less surprising than very angled ones.

Using a computer, they generated a library of 2D polygons and changed their complexity by gradually smoothing out their features — essentially decreasing the amount of information in the objects. They then presented these shapes as “paintings” and “mounted” them on framed canvases hung in a virtual room.

Around 200 participants were shown pairs of these mounted shapes (they had similar structures but varied in skeletal complexity) and asked to chose which shape they preferred. Participants preferred paintings that were neither too simple nor too complex. In other words, moderately complex shapes were chosen as the most attractive paintings.

In a second experiment, they took the shapes and divided them into boxes and then scrambled the boxes. The idea was to keep the curved and angled lines but remove the overall shape.

Now the Goldilocks effect was less pronounced. But there was still a medium complexity that the volunteers preferred. The authors suggest that ‘higher-level notions of complexity play a role over-and-above their lower-level correlates’. Or in other words, the whole is greater than the sum of the parts, which is related to the idea of 1920s Gestalt movement.

Gestalt (german for ‘shape’ or ‘form’) Theory says that when looking at a group of objects, we first identify the outline, and then match this outline pattern against shapes and objects we know to find a match. These could be shapes in nature, like trees or faces or dogs, or cityscapes or even steam engines. Whatever we are familiar with. That’s one of the reasons we like Mondrian and his squares; underlying them are objects from everyday life he’s abstracted into a grid formula. Gestalt theory says that only after the whole object emerges through this outline-pattern-matching, do we start to identify the parts that make up the whole. If there isn’t a clear outline (or a clear idea and intention from the artist), maybe it’s more difficult to get a sense of the whole?

None of the theories we’ve looked at say much about colour or texture in art. Although in some ways Birkhoff’s poetry formula tries to captures some of what we might call ‘colour’ and ‘texture’ in writing. (I note he hasn’t got a metaphor or simile factor in his equation). Colour and texture add to complexity, but they also help us to focus on particular areas of a picture to pick out the whole from the underlying components. A red oblong object might make us think of a London bus. If painted yellow, a slab of cheddar cheese. Colour and texture can simplify what we see?

Aesthetic ideals of balance and beauty i.e. objects that please the eye, are just one way we judge art. What marks out great art is that it expresses deep truths and ideas. We need to feel it too, which makes Lundholm’s experiment so interesting: his non-artistic volunteers put their feelings into lines. Great art alters the way we look at and think about ourselves and the world around us. But art also emerges from wider culture, nature, society, fashion, war, technology, engineering, science and even economics. It’s a response to the entire complex world we life in; can we measure that?

[impybutt]

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[expectsomuch]

This is not for those of you with short attention spans This a deep dive / long read. (I didn't watch the full 3+ hour video but instead read the transcript, which can be found here.)

In short: We all agree, implicitly know, that everything is falling apart. The center cannot hold. We are ripping ourselves asunder. Why?

This is an attempt at a meta-explanation for the changes in mindset over the course of human history that have led us down the path we are currently on.

Maybe, if we correctly identify it, we can change it. And we can start solving the underlying problem. Which is, put as succinctly as I can, the loss of the forest for the trees. As we focus our sights on the parts, we lose the feeling and the meaning of the whole.

[glfry]

I can’t cope with this

[futurehauntedghost]

Before the new episode of the anime drops, let me drop this theory that I’ve been having for a year now and why I think it might come true in the next episode.

My theory is that I think 9S is going to die in the stead of 2B. Let me explain.

So far the anime has had some, on first glance big differences compared to the game. Like Lily living instead of Anemone, and Eve dying before Adam. And it seems like these things would be a major change, but in hindsight, it changes overall nothing. The most we get from it is a character study from those characters when they are put in these new scenarios. This isn’t a bad thing.

I believe that the anime is telltaleing the viewers, making us think these are major changes that might change how the story goes and maybe even change the the ending but in reality, no matter how it gets there, Ending A and B still happen the same way. This also isn’t bad thing

Where this theory falls in is this thought I had, “Would Ending C & D change that much if 9S died instead of 2B” what I think is no.

Let me put you in this hypothetical: Your 2B, YoRHA is destroyed and you just escaped with 9S, and while this is very much a bad thing, seeing that most of YoRHA units got the virus and are now killing zombies, in the back of your head. This is perfect.

With the death of the commander and the whole space facility destroyed, you have no reason to kill 9S anymore. There’s nothing he can find out. And even if he did there was no reason to. Yeah there’s still the machines that are responsible for this, but after all of that is settled, you're done, forever!

You can just live your life with 9S on earth. Never having to worry if this will be the day you have to kill him ever again. And in a way with the facility destroyed there’s no way to come from being killed. So they can live their lives like humans! Finally living lives without care! Finally getting those T-shirts.

First you have to find 9S. Stop the machines so they can get to the good life fast. And as you ask your pod to give you his location to find him. And as you get close, you run across this bridge, and when you're halfway there you see him! You yell out to him but then you notice something.

…He’s been impaled by a sword.

By A2 no less…

As he falls lifeless on the ground. Your mind begins to scramble. He’s dead. He’s dead, forever. He’s not coming back again. And you’ll never see his face, his smile, his voice, ever again. He’s been taken from you just when you're finally free.

And it’s all of A2’s fault

A2 killed him before she could even say goodbye. Before she could say anything! She killed him! Something only she was supposed to do! She gets to decide when to kill him, not her!

So she’ll kill her! She’ll take her away from this earth with her own bare hands if she has to!

So yeah, I don’t think this would change anything with C & D. 2B would have the exact same bloodlust towards A2 in this scenario. And that rage would have been manipulated by the red girls the exact same way, because I’m mostly sure, that 2B didn’t even know why she was killing 9S, all that he found out too much information, information about what? She doesn’t know. And the truth would absolutely drive her insane.

Also it is a bit suspicious that the first OP of the second half isn’t on YouTube officially but the ED is. Which said ED just happened to be about 2B. And Almost as if the OP is going to change.

And it’s also weird that the 2nd Cour trailers, even the most recent episode, only consist of scenes and voice lines from the first episode. And yet the 2nd OP pretty much spoils what happens in C & D, but the first OP didn’t. Pretty suspicious. Just me though

[cryptosexologist]

waitwaitwaitwait ok i watched Zardoz recently (in a cosmic sense) and came to the conclusion that either Cruelty Squad was huffing bucketloads of its paint or that I was the one huffing paint presently, but. Psycho Patrol R (next game by the developer) is quite literally using the same concepts of “thought crime” that Zardoz’s whole _topia is based on. its the same shit. different aesthetically of course, the characters REACT to it differently, but christ on a bicycle if this isn’t deliberate i’ll [this is where a quippy joke in reference to any of the three properties would go, shit fuck uh] point my hands at consumer softproducts until they become old

[shybreadgarden]

I think a lot about why the humans are called Gestalts. There has to be a reason. It’s like the Replikas are considered to be only partial, whereas the humans are considered complete. And not only that, but encompassing the Replika and the culture. We use Gestalt in literary theory too (because we use psychology in literary theory) and it means that thing of the whole being more than the sum of its parts. It also has a meaning that is a little like zeitgeist. It’s a worldview, and a sum of the way the world is looked at through culture. So if the human is the zeitgeist that encompasses a replica, an idea, of itself… the memory reciprocation also makes sense. Especially considering the existence of bioresonance capabilities. It’s like saying, this human you were based on is your culture.

Addendum: with the new dictionary update on gestalts as meaning “original” I think this definitely still makes sense.

[blackbeeno3569]

The gestalt therapy reading time once again, could be used as backbone of Fears And Wishes:

"The change is happening by itself and this proccess "is using" its participants, to allow the change to happen. (...) From (this point of view the (post)modern theory of making a change together) is uncritically omnipotent:

You and I are making a change.

How can we be so sure?"

Roubal, 2022

[jojolimons]

here's a thing i made for an assignment in my class lol