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%PERCEIVING JACK'S FEELINGS 810320
Jack feels like he has been put down by Jill. In
Jill's family feelings were not openly expressed and she
never learned how to recognize feelings. The members of
her family and her teachers felt that it was improper to
openly and honestly express feelings, and very
intelligently rationalized their insensitive behavior.
Jill does not and can not perceive feelings, and so
feelings are not part of her objective world. Jill can
not sympathize with Jack's feeling that he has been put
down.
Kathy grew up in a subculture in which feelings were
openly and honestly expressed and unconditionally
respected. Kathy can see how Jill put Jack down, and
sympathizes with Jack's frustration over Jill's inability
to perceive and sympathize. The put-down and Jack's
feelings are among the subjective realities which Kathy
and the members of her sub-culture perceive and openly
deal with in community. Jill with intellectual
sophistication contends that Kathy and members of her sub-
culture are too subjective (subject-oriented) and are
perceiving figments of their imaginations which are not
objective (object-oriented) realities.
John dimly sees what is going on among Jill, Jack and
Kathy, but he does not have tenure and does not fell
secure in being open about what he perceives. He is up
for promotion and tenure, and does not want to risk his
chances of being accepted by his academic community. He
is tantalized by the level of mutual acceptance and open
dialogue which he perceives in Kathy's empathic
community. His fear blocks a really clear perception of
the possibilities and the alternatives. For this reason
he is not in a position to make a wise decision among the
possibilities and alternatives. His intellectual
community's collusions and taboos blind him so that ha can
not accept the knowledge which would liberate him from the
prison of his exclusive objectivity.
Professor Jill feels that as a student Jack is not
fully dedicated to his studies and shows Jack little
sympathy. As a result Jack fails in his work under Jill
and flunks out of school. Professor Jill resents
Assistant Professor John's expressions of sympathy for
Jack in his problems, and so Professor Jill undermines
John's bid for tenure and promotion. Fear reigns supreme.
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