ABSTRACT

In gestalt we believe that human beings have a natural tendency and a need to make meaningful wholes from their experience. Even if the whole is not present, we seek completion (Wertheimer, 1959; Koffka, 1935). The two unfinished diagrams in Figures 1.6 and 1.7 illustrate our need for completion. The series of dots in Figure 1.6 will be perceived as a complete circle, the unfinished ‘3’ in Figure 1.7 will be completed. It is a human need to complete to make sense of our world.