On Reading ‘Aspects of Reading’
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In this article I explore the impact of reading Desa Markovic’s 2021 paper, Aspects of Reading, whilst training as a student family and systemic psychotherapist. I argue initially that the paper’s content helped me move away from a linear valuing of logical validitiy, to a greater appreciation of a multi-perspective engagement with a text. By remarking on the similarities between Markovic’s schema, and the traditional Jewish exegetical method of PaRDeS, by way of an appeal to Bateson’s ideas about levels of learning, I seek to show that the coherent intellectual thread in systemic thought is not one of content, but of method.
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