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Theme 8 : Repetition, iteration and summing-up
I. Motion. Evolution and repetition (i.e. nature and evolution).
Evolution of movements through repetition (endless perfection but in an individual's existence is
limited physiologically by death, etc.)
1. Development of speech apparatus through repetition.
2. Repetition: fruitful and fruitless (restraint, neglect of the speech production rule; disregard for
the analysis of the speech apparatus movements through the phases: preparation - resulting
movement - relaxation).
3. Repetition and automation. Conditions of automation.
4. Repetition and adaptation, resistance to nonanalytical perception. The rule: when repeating a
movement, analyze it in a new way every next time.
5. "How to make the analysis in a new way?" (view different aspects of a movement; advance
analytical approach and heuristic delight, hedonism of the result gained at this stage).
6. Repetition of macromovements and micromovements; comprehension of details.
With repetitions the development moves towards synthesis (i.e. the densation of ideas). The
number of spiritual macromovements indicates the level of development. A spiritual micro-
movement is the atom of culture. The speech apparatus. The connection social, socio-
aesthetic, ethical, etc.
7. Organization of repetition and "actualized interest movements": the sources are different, the
facts are the same or similar.
8. Repetition and the optimum period of repetition, obedience to the imperative of a moment (the
imperative second), the autodidact's field of vision. The rule: Make microrepetition of a
movement as frequently as possible; don't speed up a macrorepetition, wait for the
imperative second.
9. Repetition as a precedent for associating (the repetition of similar events - both in history and in
the life of an individual).
10. Repetition and comprehension of the semantic meaning of a word.
11. Repetition and aesthetic perception of speech. Rhythm, intonation, passages as dynamic
stereotypes, gained in the result of analytic repetitions. Repetition and intensity of
impressions.
12. The phenomenon of the inner voice and repetition: the inner voice as the instrument of speedy
repetition; picturing of muscular movements with the inner voice involved; precise
comprehension of all parameters; cultivation of inner voice (the inner voice production, the
ability to listen to oneself and one's inner voice).
13. Repetition and perfection of skills.
II. Repetition and transmission of cultures.
1. Repetition as the means of transportation for travelling in time.
2. Repetition and rhythm in daily life.
Rhythm as frequent shifting of activities; frequent substitution of rhythm by arrhythmia;
substitution of the three-time rhythm by the two-time one; of beneficial and natural by
harmful and automatically rational (the operational formula is: common sense - image -
thought - transfer to image - sign). Repetition in daily life (repeating and reproducing for
oneself, or even to oneself, fragments of high intellectual and spiritual values and building up
a durable psychic framework to support oneself). Spiritual and intellectual arrhythmia as the
cause of physical vulnerability (lack of well-produced retransmission of repeated blocks of
cultural information).
3. Selection of the eternal and rational for repeating in selfstudying (choice of studying material for
learning foreign languages).
4. Repetition and eidos imagination.
III. Repetition of peak experiences with the help of images (literature, music, fine arts) and thoughts
(concepts, their beauty, fusion of ethics and aesthetics).
1. Cultural significance of the skill to reproduce feelings and experiences (connection with taste
orientation).
2. Daily significance of the autodidact's skill to produce necessary feelings and states.
3. Life as a chain of states and feelings:
a) leitmotiv of states and feelings as the backbone of a personality;
b) accidental states and their erasing with the help of the rule:
I fancy that within this minute a year has passed!
* * *
My room is full of savage silence and
a quietness from very old still-life.
And all is like a jelly that the knife
of anxiety cuts and the message, sent
from antic deepness, where begins the end,
already 's heard — a noise of joy, as if
mad mariners by lost ship bless the cliff
and cruel tempest and our every “can!”.
But step by step the wild become domestic,
in a reality transforms the mystic
and ordinary in joyous soul reigns.
But floods in your own mind are growing stronger
and you believe in nothings of an anger -
it is when you are lost but Nature gains.
Regards,
Valery Kourinsky
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