Elusive, that is, unless gestalt also means "self-indulgent" in German.
The overriding theme of the theory is that stimulation is perceived in organized or configurational terms (Gestalt in German means "configuration").
Gestalt theory was meant to have general applicability; its main tenets, however, were induced almost exclusively from observations on visual perception.
While we do not actually generate the Gestalt in a separate act, specifically meant to add it to the foundation, we do expend effort in completing the required set of presentational elements needed for the Gestalt, which then arises spontaneously.
The word Gestalt is used in modern German to mean the way a thing has been "placed," or "put together".
I mean, it was more the gestalt of all of the Apes films that we were trying to refer to.
Common to these early productions is the preoccupation with shape (Gestalt), movement, color, language, and gesture as the means of a "realized" or "perfected" particular human existence that represents life beyond the limits of spatio-temporal duration imposed on us in the manner of a Cartesian grid.
If Facebook really wants to collect serious money for sharing its "friends" with the highest bidder, that could mean giving up some of the innocent, playful gestalt of the site and yielding to advertisers' demands for a more intimate look at users' characteristics.
And I certainly understand the gestalt of Mogel's philosophy: A B- is a blessing, since it means a kid isn't so narrowly focused on often unattainable goals like perfect 800s on SATs.
On the seedier side of things, that means a lot of cronyism, nepotism, crass networking, and high-school cliquishness masquerading as aesthetic gestalt; on the less seedy side of things, that means a lot of cronyism, nepotism, crass networking, and high-school cliquishness masquerading as aesthetic gestalt with, somewhere in the bargain, some pretty amazing poetry to boot.
