Vers une écologie de l'esprit 1, 1977
Gregory Bateson Citations
Gregory Bateson: Citations en anglais
“The map is not the territory, and the name is not the thing named (see also, Alfred Korzybski).”
Source: Mind and Nature: A Necessary Unity, 1979, p. 30
“Let's not pretend that mental phenomena can be mapped on to the characteristics of billiard balls.”
Source: Mind and Nature, a necessary unity, 1988, p. 99
Source: Mind and Nature: A Necessary Unity, 1979, p. 56
Bateson (1978) " Number is Different from Quantity http://www.oikos.org/batesnumber.htm". In: CoEvolution Quarterly, Spring 1978, pp. 44-46
Source: Mind and Nature, a necessary unity, 1988, p. 56
Source: Mind and Nature, a necessary unity, 1988, p. 74-75
Source: Steps to an Ecology of Mind (1972), p. 486
Source: Communication: The Social Matrix of Psychiatry, 1951, p. 7
Source: Mind and Nature, a necessary unity, 1988, p. 45
It is hypothesized that a person caught in the double bind may develop schizophrenic symptoms.
Gregory Bateson, Don D. Jackson, Jay Haley, and John Weakland (1956) " Towards a theory of Schizophrenia http://www.psychodyssey.net/wp-content/uploads/2012/05/TOWARD-A-THEORY-OF-SCHIZOPHRENIA-2.pdf" In: Behavioral Science (1956) Vol 1, nr.4, pp.251-254
Source: Communication: The Social Matrix of Psychiatry, 1951, p. 6 as cited in: Stewart L. Tubbs, Robert M. Carter (1978) Shared Experiences in Human Communication. p. 1
Source: Mind and Nature, a necessary unity, 1988, p. 29
“The playful nip denotes the bite, but it does not denote what would be denoted by the bite.”
From Part 4, section 2: A Theory of Play and Fantasy
Steps to an Ecology of Mind (1972)
Source: Mind and Nature, a necessary unity, 1988, p. 27
Gregory Bateson (1955) " A theory of play and fantasy http://sashabarab.com/syllabi/games_learning/bateson.pdf". In: Psychiatric research reports, 1955. pp. 177-178] as cited in: S.P. Arpaia (2011) " Paradoxes, circularity and learning processes http://www2.units.it/episteme/L&PS_Vol9No1/L&PS_Vol9No1_2011_18b_Arpaia.pdf". In: L&PS – Logic & Philosophy of Science, Vol. IX, No. 1, 2011, pp. 207-222
7.4 Ecology and Flexibility in Urban Civilization
Steps to an Ecology of Mind (1972)
“Things have to be done fast in America, and therefore therapy has to be brief.”
Source: Communication: The Social Matrix of Psychiatry, 1951, p. 148 as cited in: C.H. Patterson (1958) "Two approaches to human relations". in: American Journal of Psychotherapy. Vol 7.
“Money is always transitively valued. More money is supposedly always better than less money.”
Source: Mind and Nature, a necessary unity, 1988, p. 56
Source: Mind and Nature: A Necessary Unity, 1979, p. 49
“Logic is a poor model of cause and effect.”
Source: Mind and Nature: A Necessary Unity, 1979, Chapter 2, section 13 as cited in: Gregory Bateson (1988) Mind and nature: a necessary unity. p. 134
Source: Steps to an Ecology of Mind (1972), p. 494
Bateson as cited in: David Lipset (1982) Gregory Bateson: the legacy of a scientist. p. 143
Gregory Bateson (1935) "Culture Contact and Schismogenesis" in: Man, Vol. 35 (Dec., 1935), pp. 178-183. Republished in: Steps to an Ecology of Mind (1972, p. 75)
“The world partly becomes — comes to be — how it is imagined.”
Source: Mind and Nature, a necessary unity, 1988, p. 223
Source: Mind and Nature, a necessary unity, 1988, p. 25
“Language commonly stresses only one side of any interaction.”
Source: Mind and Nature: A Necessary Unity, 1979, p. 56
Source: Mind and Nature: A Necessary Unity, 1979, p. 93