[wynn_schwartzParticipant]

I’ve been slowly going through the proofs of DP and the Person Concept and I got distracted when I read the following. I suspect it is a key way in to discussing consciousness and cognizant action.

“What are you doing?” “Why are you doing that?” “What is that?” and how they lead to “What are you thinking?” “What are you noticing?” “Why are you noticing that?” “What are you aware of?” and “It’s interesting that you think/see/wonder about it that way –– you’ve an interesting perspective”. The “meta” of awareness of awareness/thinking/deciding/viewing as the individual child becoming self and world conscious.

Here’s the quote from a rap session on language and verbal behavior.:

Ossorio: You have to be careful when you say, “What’s the Descriptive
approach?” to anything. There is no Descriptive approach to anything.
Any one of you could use the Descriptive framework and develop a
theory of language and language development and they would all be
different. It is not that there is a set of answers built into Descriptive
that all you have to do is read it off.
Member of Audience: But my question was what would you do?
[laughter]
Ossorio: The way that I would go is to say there is an age at which
kids learn this [pointing to the formula for behavior]. And roughly
speaking it is the age where they are going around asking “Why?”
And when parents ask them “Why did you do that?” and start getting
some kind of answer. And that to me is a very fundamental point in
development. Once you acquire the notion of doing something, then
there is a whole lot of things, in fact, almost everything else is simply
an instance or a variation on that. Because one of the things that you
can do is talk. You can say something. So, once you have the notion of
doing something, the notion of saying something is simply a special
case. So that would be how I would approach a developmental theory.
Okay, any more on language?

[wynn_schwartzParticipant]

Both have a family resemblance but they take different focal objects. Envy generally involves a problematic inequity based on a person’s self status assignment and the status they attribute to someone else. Someone they envy.

Jealousy in contrast involves a focus on the other’s threat to one’s valued possessions and/or an uncomfortable desire for their possessions.

Understandably these get mixed. A person is understandably envious of another’s superior position and may see that superior position as a threat to keeping their possession.

Pretty abstract but consider the boy or girl that seemed better than you and got the boy or girl you had or wanted.

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