SWP 331 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Narrative Therapy, Institute For Operations Research And The Management Sciences, Gilles Deleuze
5 Apr 2017
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European colonizing processes through re-membering and rewriting local narratives, reclaiming languages, practices long excluded by colonization. A shift from identity (too fixed); we all have multiple selves that may change, conflict and be under production". We are always powerful and powerless at same time. Power is exercised rather than possessed; not only repressive but productive; can be analyzed as coming from bottom-up. How to identify, deconstruct a discourse by undermining oppositions normal/abnormal; male/female (derrida) Local, detailed stories that can be changed, re-constructed. Challenges workers to be open to creative ideas and to acknowledge that a number of different plans could be employed. Demands a slower intervention in which a worker must carefully engage with the stories being told by players in that specific context. Challenges practitioners to listen and learn from the individuals and to understand that each is unique.
