Dear All,
I was watching Federico Fellini's 'La Strada' yesterday: An incredible,
classic, poetic and artistic film but not so much educational or
epistemological with no clear message and insight, other than the usual
Fellinian anti Church messages. And certainly not analysis. It is
full of artistic symbols (e.g., sea).
I am using it to reflect on the difference between poetic and artistic
and epistemological, phenomenological, educational and analytical that
uses poetry and art.
I have been drawn to art in my heuristics of human existence so as to
analyse and delve inside it as an educational exercise and rebelled
against my original training that told me to leave the poetic and
artistic for the analytic, empirical and scientific.
I transformed myself from being a very cold, impersonal scientist to an
artist of human existence. I am overwhelmed this transformation.
My intentions are still educational and epistemological though as a
psychologist and the constructor of my heuristics of human existence.
Alon
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