"I know Freudian concepts. I wouldn't want to practice without them. I
know Jungian theory. I wouldn't want to practice without that either.
And, I want every other theory I can get. But once I have them, then
it's time to recognize that none of them could possibly be right. After I
know them precisely, then it's time to let the vague thing that is
actually in front of me take precedence over all the clarities. The
person before me isn't any theory, isn't any set of concepts, and
moreover is not finished. Even the small feeling the person has just
then isn't finished. If I try to ossify it, what good am I being?
Without precise theories I wouldn't notice a lot that I need to notice. I
can try out every theory I know, but the vague implicitly intricate
living thing has to be asked, and has to take precedence." Eugene Gendlin
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