|Mark Johnson|
|The Body in the Mind|
Attraction:
The vectors can be either actual or potential, and there might be additional objects added to represent more complex relations of attraction. The force is a kind of gravitation toward an object.
Blockage:
When a baby learns to crawl, for instance, it encounters a wall that blocks its further progress in some direction...
in such a case the child is learning part of the meaning of force and of forceful resistance...This pattern of blockage involves a pattern that is repeated over and over again throughout our lives. The relevant gestalt can be represented as a force vector encountering a barrier and taking any number of possible directions.
Center Periphery:
Our world radiates out from our bodies as perceptual centers from which we see, hear, touch, taste and smell our world. What is figure or foreground at one moment may become background at another as we move perceptually through our world. A number of other schemata are superimposed upon it.
Compulsion:
The force comes from somewhere, has a given magnitude, moves along a path and has a direction point. When a crowd starts pushing you are moved along a path, you may not have chosen, by a force you seem unable to resist.
Cycle:
We experience our world and everything in it as embedded within cyclic processes: day and night, the seasons. A cycle is a temporal circle. The simplest cycle schemata is thus represented by a circular motion.
Cycle Climax:
The climactic structure of the cycle is perhaps represented by the sine wave with its periodic rise and fall...it is important to see that this climactic pattern is typically imposed by us. This structure constitutes one of our most basic patterns for experiencing temporality.
Diversion:
A force vector is diverted as the result of the casual interaction of two or more vectors. The appropriate schema shows two colliding forces with a resultant change in force vectors.
Enablement:
You feel able to move the chair over to the corner, or to lift the comb up to your hair... it is legitimate to include this structure of possibility in our common gestalts for force, since there are potential force vectors present, and there is a definite "directness" (or potential path of motion) present. The gestalt is represented, then only by a potential force vector and in absence of barriers or blocking counterforces.
Link:
The link schemata must be metaphorically interpreted to apply to abstract objects or connections, since there is no actual physical bond of the required sort to relate the objects. Links in our spatial and temporal experience sharwe a common schematic structure. It consists of two entities connected by a bonding structure.
Path:
Some paths involve an actual physical surface that you traverse...others involve a projected path...and certain paths exist, at the present, only in your imagination. In every case of paths there are always the same parts: a source or starting point, a goal or end point, and a sequence of contiguous locations connecting the two.
Removal Restraint:
When the door is opened, we are free to come into the room. The removal of a barrier or the absence of some potential restraint is a structure of experience that we encounter daily. The relevant schema is thus one that suggests an open way or path, which makes possible an exertion of force.
Scale:
We can view our world as a massive expanse of quantitative amount and qualitative degree or intensity. Our world is experienced partly in terms of more, less and the same. The scale schema has a more or less fixed directionality. Scales have cumulative character of a special sort.