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A Squid from Jere Moorman

When there is installation of PCA in an organization...there is a period where it (PCA) constitutes a "second reality" outside the official realm...A "different" system of meanings existing alongside and in opposition to the 'authoritarian word' of dominant orthodoxy.

I believe this juxtaposition of PCA with the official realm evokes much terror and much laughter. Even in a case of individual therapy...the client discovers a "second reality" which is really their own congruent self. A different system of meanings is discovered existing alongside and in opposition to the expectations of the "authoritarian word." A discovery which also may be scary at first--sometimes humourous--even marvelous.

Jere, 21 Feb 99