KREATIVNA INDIFERENTNOST I DIFERENCIJACIJA NA POLOVE U GEŠTALT PSIHOTERAPIJI
CREATIVE INDIFFERENCE AND POLAR DIFFERENTIATION IN GESTALT PSYCHOTHERAPY

Summary/Abstract: The topic of the following paper is the influence of the ideas about creative indifference and polar differentiation of the German-Jewish philosopher Salomo Friedlaender on Fritz Perls and Gestalt psychotherapy. The founder of the gestalt psychotherapy was attracted to the dialogic nature of Friedlander’s ideas and incorporated them into the foundations of his theory and practice. The influence is evident in Perls’s understanding of being centered in the here and now, figure and background, then in the understanding of the field, organismic self-regulation, but also holism as a core concept of gestalt, which is contained in the very name of the method. Perls’s ideas about the self and the middle mode also arise from the fruitful contact of the two thinkers. With all this in mind, in addition to the three philosophical pillars on which Gestalt psychotherapy rests, namely phenomenology, existentialism and Eastern philosophy, Friedlander’s philosophical system, despite the fact that its influence has long been unrecognized in its full extent, could be considered as fourth pillar of the Gestalt.

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