furthermore • gary e. davis • berkeley


gedavis.com	aspects of being well	The Project

	furthermore gary e. davis	March 16, 2020

February, 2019

Before I began this precursory excursion into the notion of “being well,” I planned to give attention to many more topics, but I’ve decided to introduce those later in better detail than I feel like doing now (because I want to move on to new biblio-
philia offline, for the sake of later discussion online).

All of the earlier sections of “aspects...” are beginnings, as I mentioned earlier, especially the sub-sections of “other basic aspects...” (needless to say, I hope).

So much lies ahead for conceptual inquiry that I might well say that the sketched “conceptual aspects of being well” aren’t fairly introduced.

individuation <—> socialization

I want to clarify a post-sociocentric understanding of the difference between
(a) interpersonal life through individuation and (b) individuation through interpersonal life. The mutuality of dynamics enables creativity better by being more (a) than (b); i.e., (a) orienting (b) more than the converse.

background Self, overt selfidentity, and [inter]personality

A well-developed understanding of S/s/p differentiality involves psychodynamics that are standardly addressed in psychotherapeutic process (e.g., Self as unconscious; s/p difference involving borderline confusions). But those differences are originally of healthy individuation, showing distortedly in clinical issues.

Also, those differences involve potentials that are important (I will show) to tropical phenomenology, philology, and conceptual prospecting through discursive reading.

dramactionality

A notion of dramactionality, which is barely hinted in this February version of “being well,” has been discussed briefly in several earlier topics (here and here), not yet in fair detail. Shakespeare’s quip that all the world’s a stage is gross understatement: All the world’s a manifold of theaters. Artistry of living is a Janus-faced dramatic art of ideally high flourishing channeled through events of appropriation that are flexibly at home, whatever the house. I intend to make better sense of this rhetoric, about aspects of daily life that have become second nature for me.

ethical life

I want to dwell with technicalities of ethics. And I want to bridge the kind of discussions belonging to the entire Area of “being well” with richer senses of goodG society (via cultivation of flexible adaptability, perspectivity, and creative potential) that is already introduced for “progressive practice.”

The large proportion of my interest in being well hasn’t been discussed at all here: enabling individuation through good parenting, understanding eras of child individuation, being a teen, and making emergent adulthood a waystation to a fulfilling life where learning never ends. And much more.

All in all, “being well” is a preface to other Areas here.

March 2020

So far, I’ve been largely unfair to my sense of the most important aspects of being well, by merely doing the introductory discussions of 2019. My basic interest is
to better examine a conception of valuing (value conceptuality). That is, life-
world-invested conceptuality is my orienting interest, leading into topics of theoretical humanities.

On the way into that, I intend to elaborate notions discussed in the main sections of “aspects…,” especially topics merely mentioned for “other aspects”:

importance
feeling
enaction

And I intend to dwell better with the short discussions linked from “other aspects…” about:

inquiriality
mind
intelligence
reason
rationality
good

back to —> “being well” Area page