ABSTRACT
In their essays, “Disillusionment” and “Dialogue of Lacks”, Dr David Gutmann and his colleagues explore a complex hypothesis about the dialectical relationship between illusion and disillusion. This process can be also understood as the story of building one’s identity and deepening one’s understanding about life and death. The authors assert that this is not a linear process, nor is its goal an ultimate, final understanding of the human condition. Rather, the construction and deconstruction of illusion (disillusionment) enable us to mature, to embrace life with desire and in that very embrace, to also experience its absence. “It is about understanding where the boundary lies between survival . . . and a life of desire and creation” (“Disillusionment”, p. 35)
