Published: December 2022

Keywords:
Fany Triantafillou, Humberto Maturana, Gregory Bateson, Nora Bateson, Reality, Objectivity, Objectivity-without-parenthesis, Objectivity-in-parenthesis, Observer, Praxis of living, Emotions, Criteria, Validation, Language, Perturbation, Emergence, Structural Coupling, Co-Existence, Con-Versation, Words, Thought.

Fany Triantafillou

Psychiatrist, psychotherapist, founding member of The Systemic Association of N. Greece and The North Hellenic Psychoanalytic Society, trainer and supervisor at the Institute of Systemic Thinking and Psychotherapy.

Email: triantafilloufany@gmail.com

Abstract

This text is a republication from the old, printed Metalogos, issue 21 (June 2012), celebrating, at the time, its ten years of successful circulation in Greece. One year later, Metalogos was opened online to the rest of the world.

Most of the text, in the form of a dialogue, was based on the “classic” article of Humberto Maturana: Maturana, H. (1988). Reality: The Search for Objectivity or the Quest for a Compelling Argument. The Irish Journal of Psychology, 9, 1, 25-82.

Translation into English by Zoe Marmouri & Olga Alexiadou. English Editing: F. Triantafillou.