It has the paradoxical power to create doctors with an extraordinary appreciation for all humanity.
They are often pieces that use that paradoxical power of the fragment to suggest a timelessness or spaciousness, for example In Memoriam Andras Mihaly, another of the Jatekok.
The paradoxical power of the screen animal, as something both symbolic and real, is perhaps best appreciated in Bresson's "Au Hasard Balthazar" (which happens to be Mr. Haneke's favorite film).
Exploring her family history with the assistance of siblings, her father and several surprise guests, Ms. Polley patiently opens up the mystery of her own identity and ponders the paradoxical power of cinema to expose and conceal the truth.
Visiting a lady-friend who likes him more than he likes her, he observes: "In deferring to her sense of what existed between us, I appeared to have put myself in a position of paradoxical power".
That story is an apt illustration of the paradoxical power of movie make-believe and the twofold imitation it can inspire: you dream of being both the character and the person behind the character.
But if there's one artist who best expresses the paradoxical power of love, its simultaneous nature as both unshakable bond and unstoppable rupture, it is Sharon Hayes.
In his musical soliloquies, he embraces Hooper's paradoxical aesthetic of power anthem meets Stanislavski.
In the introduction to that text, Butler notes that subjection is a paradoxical form of power.
Perhaps, the older population has intuitively understood some of the paradoxical virtues and power of technology in the form of a telemedicine encounter, namely, that the essence of care is the basic connectivity with another human being, the telling of one's narrative of what is ailing them, and the trust that the person across from them (on the monitor) is listening and observing carefully.
Secondarily there is an affect: a certain aggression or brutality, a paradoxical sense of power, destruction, fullness and emptiness.
