Yeah I enjoyed your comment, and because my usual way of relating to people is to state things I don't agree with, I picked the only part that I could really respond to to respond to.
In that vein, while I'm not sure that I understand exactly what you're saying here, I do suspect that you'd probably find my opinion very directly in opposi…
Yeah I enjoyed your comment, and because my usual way of relating to people is to state things I don't agree with, I picked the only part that I could really respond to to respond to.
In that vein, while I'm not sure that I understand exactly what you're saying here, I do suspect that you'd probably find my opinion very directly in opposition to yours. Radical individualism is an idea adjacent to the human soul; despite our possessing specific perspectives and individual desires, we're also indelibly part of a collectivistic, eusocial species whose members have poor survival prospects on their own and whose reproduction is so dependent on cooperation what we fall into an addictive social state called love as part of the mating process. Moreover, most of us are so non-unique that by the time we are old, we have met most of the upteen-hundred different people that exist three times already - this is an inevitable claim that follows from the trait-theoretic perspective on human beings that Tove is talking about.
I don't think our perspectives are that diametric. I find that I don't disagree at all with the extended view you just expressed. What I contend is that the context matters. In the hyper self-focused context of psychotherapy, we can't deal as much with generalities or commonalities even though these are present all the time.
Psychotherapy is a space where we deal and travel in the fine marginal contours of individual differences using as our differentiating medium the shared tendencies or the human baseline. And by "radical individualism", strictly in the context of psychotherapy, I mean a process and method which has as its guiding principle the beliefs that (1) individual differences matter more than similarities (2) that an individual cannot be understood unless their points of uniqueness (as opposed to their normative qualities) are discovered (3) that the pathway to healing is individually charted (even though when correctly charted sometimes leads the client back to those collective practices and knowledge you rightly referred to). But it is the process to this destination rather than the destination itself that psychotherapy is concerned with and that process is radically individualistic.
Yeah I enjoyed your comment, and because my usual way of relating to people is to state things I don't agree with, I picked the only part that I could really respond to to respond to.
In that vein, while I'm not sure that I understand exactly what you're saying here, I do suspect that you'd probably find my opinion very directly in opposition to yours. Radical individualism is an idea adjacent to the human soul; despite our possessing specific perspectives and individual desires, we're also indelibly part of a collectivistic, eusocial species whose members have poor survival prospects on their own and whose reproduction is so dependent on cooperation what we fall into an addictive social state called love as part of the mating process. Moreover, most of us are so non-unique that by the time we are old, we have met most of the upteen-hundred different people that exist three times already - this is an inevitable claim that follows from the trait-theoretic perspective on human beings that Tove is talking about.
I don't think our perspectives are that diametric. I find that I don't disagree at all with the extended view you just expressed. What I contend is that the context matters. In the hyper self-focused context of psychotherapy, we can't deal as much with generalities or commonalities even though these are present all the time.
Psychotherapy is a space where we deal and travel in the fine marginal contours of individual differences using as our differentiating medium the shared tendencies or the human baseline. And by "radical individualism", strictly in the context of psychotherapy, I mean a process and method which has as its guiding principle the beliefs that (1) individual differences matter more than similarities (2) that an individual cannot be understood unless their points of uniqueness (as opposed to their normative qualities) are discovered (3) that the pathway to healing is individually charted (even though when correctly charted sometimes leads the client back to those collective practices and knowledge you rightly referred to). But it is the process to this destination rather than the destination itself that psychotherapy is concerned with and that process is radically individualistic.