Laurence J. Victor
EXAMPLE:
Imagine there are three
disciplines that are not explicitly dependent, although being all part of a
greater whole, they are linked. Each
discipline has a set of basic assumptions.
For example: physics, education, anthropology.
A new whole is conceived,
that involves modification of some basic assumptions in each of the three
disciplines, AND which brings the three disciplines into more explicit
inter-dependence.
Contemporary experts are specialized
to their respective disciplines. They
also have general knowledge about the other disciplines, but consider their
knowledge of those other disciplines sufficient and tend to underplay the
importance, depth, and complexity of the other disciplines.
Attempts to present the
integrated whole is very difficult as it is not even imagined by the
specialists.
To present each discipline
with the proposed modification of THEIR basic assumptions (about THEIR
discipline) leads to immediate rejection because the motivation and
justification comes from the changed assumptions of the other two disciplines
-- assumptions which each person holds unconsciously and uncritically.
Each person cannot be
interested in an examination of the basics of the other two disciplines --
necessary before their contribution to the unconscious context for their own
discipline can be questioned.
This is the situation I am
in, except that there are many more than three domains that are synergistically
synthesized. There are about a dozen
primary domains.
But, even this simple example
is difficult to share. Why?
What is it, in Kegan's model
that I have "objectified" that others have not?