ABSTRACT
This chapter summarizes the Von Uexkull's anticipated concepts of negative feedback and cybernetic loops which are central to so much of the thinking. The Eleanor Gibson's approach disputes the conventional representational theory of perception and replaces it with direct, immediate perception, with no intervening process of inference or computation. Two bodies in the therapy room together are, in Merleau-Ponty's terms, one Flesh; their perception of each other is intimate, immediate. Traditionally therapy has relied on the special senses of sight and hearing, the senses that reach out across space. The chapter presents that the space they reach across is in many ways imaginary: that the other is immediately present to the author, and that his most effective ways of perceiving her presence are visceral rather than visual, where "things pass into them as well as they into the things". It also summarizes the Merleau-Ponty, ecological perception, and enactionism, and gives great attention to vision.
