Re: onions and their peeling
Shaulabar,
thanks for appreciating my topics.
u said it right, it will be counter intuitive if we sculpt so much that the sculpture went out of its existence.
the idea is to make the difference in the knowing about the depth of a personality, through un-layering its behaviors' root causes.
the questions u pointed to, are credible & thoughtfully interesting ones.
let's look at this field's work - psychology.
psycho therapies are all about unraveling a person's true inner core, i.e. her/his personality, even in therapies which are client centered, we are hoping to open up the pent up feelings, regrets, fears, paranoia, anxiety, apprehensions, malaise & dreams, by way of talking it all out with the client.
even when a concerned relative speaks to the one who is distressed, the aim is to get to what the distressed person wants, and that reflects their personality.
i like the peeling analogy, as onion is diminished to nothing, once it is all peeled.
we cannot do this with humans because we know that it is not doable in the same manner. we cannot be as swift and direct as a knife.
we have to be gentle and understand that the human personality is as unpredictable as a storm or a volcano.
the upsurge or the down surge in a personality's otherwise balanced state
is what should motivate the unpeeling in this context, un layering.
the end result is, an insight into the person's beliefs, opinions, reasons for being a certain way and then, hopefully s/he can be helped in directing their energies into more healthier ways of living, possibly with the maximum autonomy which that personality desired all along, while instilling a sense of social and personal responsibility of the consequences of actions by that personality on its surroundings.
You can say that, if taking the analogy of peeling you suggest (that is the one of layers within a personality) peeling represents unveiling the true meaning or the core of a personality. However, do you really think that completely unraveling a personality is something we should do? Do you really want to know everything? Will that ultimately help you or others? Or will it make you cry or sad or will it in other ways cause a reaction that you may not want to come to terms with?
Other interpretations could obviously be taken, like for instance, if you have a cause do you always have a reaction? and is that reaction always the correct one? and if not how do you choose to react, or are you even allowed to choose a reaction?
But I dont feel like going down that path today...the winds of logic are just not taking me there right now....
Interesting posts btw...you raise some good questions on the forum...there should be more like you...makes it worthwhile to come back.