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become aware of, only those elements that

represent, remind us of, unresolved emotional

conflicts from our personal past.

The idea of perception as a dynamic and

subjectively creative process first saw the light

of day in Germany, round about the beginning

of the last century. By the 1920’s it had

coalesced into a radical new school of

psychology that went by the name of Gestalt:

a German word that can best be translated

into the English ‘configuration’. The gestalts

that go to make up our personal reality don’t

necessarily have a lot to do with the purely

physical properties of the presenting world at

any given moment. Our world-view exists only

as a series of events, as happenings between

ourselves and the world-flux that both

surrounds and permeates our substance. Each

perceived image is actually a personal

selection, an individual gestalt, from the

infinite permutations of possibility that are