Watching my ‘personal film’, or configuring an image-like symbolic process representation

Abstract

"Abstract: The continuum of our life processes is transformed in personal figural experience by awareness. Experience is always more or less conscious, yet it is affected by ‘unseen’, unconscious processes running in the ground. During the figural sharpening and the evolvement of the contact cycle, just when awareness appears, there is an image-like, spontaneously-emerging representation, the ‘personal film’. It could phenomenologically be the symbolisation of the field in motion, as it is reorganised through an organism/environment contact episode. It carries in its structure imprints of both our conscious (figural) and unconscious (ground) processes, and thus it can be a comple- mentary tool in any kind of process and awareness work. This article is a Gestalt configuration of the personal film concept. Key words: personal film, basic awareness, full awareness, figure/ground configuration, image-like representation, process symbolising, process continuum, time sense, conscious and unconscious process."