Validation
#2: Here, six metaphor creation
tests help to reconstruct the personal six-role Conflict Resolution
Process. The experimentally derived sequence validates the
theory by showing that parts are formally interrelated within
the dramatic totality. This totality also tells how its author,
Dr. Albert Levis, evolved from a stress, "The War of
Metaphors," through his response, anxiety, defense, reversal,
to the compromise of "The Reconciliation of the Metaphors."
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is identified by the Mask Test, which reveals
a person's identity. I chose the image of the runaway Pinocchio,
the wooden puppet lying about his identity, fleeing the killer
whale of hot ideologies pursuing naive consumers. |
Defense
is identified by the Animal Metaphor
Test. Here, the Formal Theory Oedipus is offering
the Shpinx an olive branch--Conflict Resolution--as the new
answer to the everlasting riddle on the nature of man. |
Compromise
is identified by the Short Story Test. My Judaic
passion for jusice and my Greek respect for reason as the fiddler
on the temple roof unites the world metaphors in the cosmic
dance of an universal moral order. |
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| Stress
is identified by the Memories Test. It represents
my recollection of World War II as "The War of the Metaphors,"
the war of multiple cultural conflicts endagering everybody's
survival. |
Anxiety
is identified by the Behind the Mask Test.
It presents Pinocchio trapped in the stomach of the killer whale
with his creator, Geppetto. My Pinocchio is showing the Unit
of the Conflict Resolution Process to Geppetto. This discovery
has transformed him from a puppet into a true human. |
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Reversal is identified by the Dream Test.
It presents the daydream of my family working as a team delivering
hospitality and wisdom to fellow travelers on the patio of the
Art to Science Project, the Wilburton Inn. |
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