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| Author: | Gurevitch, Z. D. |
| Title: | The power of not understanding: the meeting of conflicting identities |
| Journal: | Journal of Applied Behavioral Science
1989 : VOL. 25:2, p. 161-173 |
| Index terms: | INDIVIDUAL BEHAVIOUR CONFLICT ORGANIZATIONAL PSYCHOLOGY HUMAN RELATIONS |
| Language: | eng |
| Abstract: | Attempts to establish dialogue between conflicting identities usually focus on mutual understanding and the common, while downplaying the elements of the conflict and ignoring the element of otherness, which is especially important for conflicts. A real dialogue requires that the parties first acknowledge this otherness as the distance between them. Thus, the ability to not understand, rather than the ability to understand the other, is posited as crucial to the dialogic process. Only when the parties relinquish their previous understanding can dialogue address the nucleus of the opposition and conflict, and mobilize relations between the parties within the dialogic framework. |
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