ABSTRACT
The problem of dependency as a dirty word in the dictionary of the "first language of individualism" may be illuminated by observing how the idea of restrainment, whether by a community/by parents, has perplexed many Americans. This chapter explores the possibility of "give and take" as a nondespotic conceptualization of interdependency by construing the idea of multilinguistic interaction. It demonstrates how the imitatio Dei model of giving in essence constitutes a misunderstood prerequisite for any form of effective interpersonal receiving. The chapter examines the relevance of the cabalistic principle of contraction to processes of education or love relationships. After exercising dia-logic reading and self-corrective mirroring, usually a natural situation evolved during which someone in the group volunteered to use a personal problem for psychodramatic interpretation. The present psychological perspective may throw new light on a debate among students of Jewish mysticism concerning the ecstatic experience of devekut.
