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Gestalt
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gestalt /ge·stalt/ (gah-stawlt´) (gah-shtawlt´) [Ger.] form, shape; a whole perceptual configuration. See gestaltism.
ge·stalt or Ge·stalt (g-shtält, -shtôlt, -stält, -stôlt)
n. pl. ge·stalts or ge·stalt·en (-shtältn, -shtôltn, -stältn, -stôltn)
A physical, biological, psychological, or symbolic configuration or pattern of elements so unified as a whole that its properties cannot be derived from a simple summation of its parts. Also called gestalt phenomenon.
Gestalt
A humanistic therapy technique that focuses on gaining an awareness of emotions and behaviors in the present rather than in the past.
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Gestalt
[gəshtält′] pl. Gestalts, Gestalten
Etymology: Ger, form
a single physical, psychologic, or symbolic configuration, pattern, or experience that consists of a number of elements and that has an effect as a whole different from that of the sum of its parts.


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That Kuehn fails, also, to include any selections from Guardini's probing study on Dostoevsky, Religiose Gestalten in Dostojewskijs Werk (1951), several chapters of which appeared in English translation in the American journal Cross Currents in 1952 and 1956, and also from The Virtues (1963, 1967), on "forms of moral life," adds to one's disappointment, especially when an editor sets out to present "the essential Guardini" to a new generation of readers.
The essential Guardini by Panichas, George A. / Modern Age
The elements are defined not so much as single independent units but as gestalten or interrelation of the elements--that is, the elements occur not through the summation of separate sensations but in interrelation with each other.
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But each theme/horizon concretization is temporary and may have to be modified as other Gestalten are experienced.
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