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I am working this morning with an idea about a possible relationship between Weber's "Protestant Ethic" and a concept from N-LP that morphed into something ugly.
The start is Grinder and Bandler's "Polarities" concepts in Structure II. Given a client exhibiting lateral incognruency, if the counselor adopts a congruent example of one, the client will typically become congruent in the other. This leaves open the vague term congruence; for the counselor is only playing congruent, not neccessarily feeling the feelings, but very much acting, in the craftsman sense, using their instrument to acheive a result. Of course this idea of acting, of using the instrument in such a fashion is anathema to lots of folks's notions of how to know you can trust someone; it dissolves faith in spontaneity. (And that gets us to Watzlaiwicks "be spontaneous" error. But there are only so many hours in a day and this post has already taken most of two hours creating glossary terms, book links, and web-cross-references.)
So, we've got a therapeutic maneuver: becoming congruent to feed back to the client one of their poarized expressions. And we've got the Calvinist, as described by Weber, notion of "doubting one's status as elect is a sure sign of ot being elect" (which is not without a compelling rhetorical force...to be reckoned with at a later time; there's still the whole presupposition project to put up, and to which this should point, being, in effect, an example of "If you were of the elect you wouldn't doubt it.") Add in Erickson's "Hypnosis is only dangerous when the hypnotist thinks so." Heap "don't think of blue monkeys" onto the pile. Toss in "Personal Power/Congruence" (which needs to be de-conflated from the glossary entry on congruence), which claims in essence that if you act like the client is going to go into trance they'll go into trance. Finally, stir in a little more of the self-sealing condition in which any appearance of self doubt is a sin, because it plays against the results of being congruent, with the flavor of, "If you think you can't, you won't try, so it might as well be true" grotesquing into the nonsense of "You can do it if you really believe" and the disgustingly smug smarminess of the fire-walkers and huslters who so degraded the tone of N-LP that I still can't bring up the subject without cringing.
It all hangs on "Congruent", but, clearly, there are more than a couple types.
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