Share your reluctance to embrace jargon, Max. I've been doing Iyengar yoga now for nearly twenty years but I hardly recognise the names of the asanas (postures) and still look to others to see how I am expected to comport/contort. Working in The Australian Bureau of Statistics long ago, I was amazed at the ease with which others fell to describing certain statistical forms by acronyms or technical nomenclature. The forms were identified by me by colour.
Could pathoplastic mean an aversion to the man-made?
Viktor Frankl was the Concentration Camp survivor who suggested the meaning of life was the need to find meaning was he not? Long time since I read him but I do seem to recall he had it over the Nazis because of his ability to continue to search for meaning even in the midst of cruel chaos.
Bill
> On 16 Oct 2014, at 5:28 am, Max Richards <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>
> Logotherapy
>
> Reading my wife’s textbooks -
> what a relief not to be tested
> on them! - browsing, thank you -
>
> no need to take notes - no
> underlining or post-it-ing -
> not even looking up
>
> hard words: logotherapy,
> thymopsychic, pathoplastic…
> creaturalness…crikey!
>
> is that like creatureliness?
> Oh, it may be useful.
> I’m listening for them
>
> on the beloved’s lips -
> untainted so far,
> but soon assignments
>
> may force them on her -
> words to write, not speak.
> Didn’t I when I taught
>
> have my special words
> paraded before students
> in hopes they’d emulate?
>
> ‘Contagion of the gown’?*
> mostly resisted. Now
> I’m reading Victor Frankl
>
> grateful for his passion,
> his faith in freedom,
> vocation, his lexicon.
>
> *S.Johnson, Vanity of Human Wishes:
> Fever of Renown,
> Caught from the ftrong Contagion of the Gown ;
> O'er Bod/efs Dome his future Labours spread,
> And Bacons Manfion trembles o'er his Head.
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