Constructiveness vs. Destructiveness
Concepts that can be both constructive and destructive
Forgiveness
Anger
Musings
Just because you know how something feels says nothing about the fact if it is a constructive or destructive part of your life.
Destructiveness
Destructive Emotions
Monography by Daniel Goleman
Destructivity
Destructiveness / destructive
Constructiveness
Terminology
Constructivity
for non-native speakers it might be interesting to note that this is not the same term, rather applies to computer science
Constructiveness / constructive
be aware of a completely different meaning of the word "constructive" in legal language
"Serving to improve or advance; helpful ..."
"promoting improvement or development"
The Concept
Pain has a normative quality
there is a "sweet-spot" of feeling uncomfortable
with increasing pain the probability of constructive change (growth) decreases
does this contradict that crisis sometimes leads to impressive change
situations of being "overwhelmed" by pain or other emotions always leads to an unconstructive situation
re-traumatization
Premises
pain is a common human experience and a feature of human nature
pain is a purely subjective experience (emotional pain even more so as physical pain)
Other dichotomies
"comfortable" / "uncomfortable"
"positive" / "negative"
"Good" / "Bad"
The definitions of the terms is based on other terms that are themselves normative in nature.
all these dichotomies are subjective in nature
It comes down to the concept of "desireable"/"undesireable".
"People do not always want what they want." -anon
Rules/reasons for assigning a subject to one of the two categories
normative concept
subjective in nature unless the underlying mechanism is found
Gewirth
