Overcoming Dichotomies

A poem in the name of a biopsychosocial and systemic understanding of the human being and society, understanding phenomena in all their complexity:

Beyond good and evil, the ethical;

Beyond right or wrong, the just;

Beyond equal or unequal, the equitable;

Beyond the mind or brain, plastic interaction;

Beyond the genetic or environmental, the epigenetic;

Beyond the rational or emotional, the affective rational being;

Beyond soul or body, transcendence in life;

Beyond idealism or empiricism, constructionism;

Beyond science or spirituality, the discovery of mysteries;

Beyond war or peace, diplomacy;

Beyond left or right, dialogue and construction;

Beyond the oppressor or the oppressed, co-operation;

Beyond autonomy and independence or intimacy, co-construction;

Beyond the self or the other, interaction;

Beyond subject or object, dialogy;

Beyond the past or future, the present.

That we embrace complexity because the whole is always much more than the sum of its parts

Ana Lúcia Senise

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