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> "Conflict is essential to human life..." This is great. Can you give a citation?

• soulofmischief 4y ago
  Like any evolving, dynamic system, there's an evolutionary benefit to residing in the edge of chaos. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edge_of_chaos https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edge_of_chaos
• tacitusarc 4y ago
  Pulled from @dang’s profile: > Marion Milner, 'The Toleration of Conflict', Occupational Psychology, 17, 1, January 1943
  • dang 4y ago
    Right you are. I ran across that quote in her collection "The Suppressed Madness of Sane Men". She included the quote but not the paper. I thought it was amazing, so I wanted to read the paper—which was not easy to find. Eventually someone dug me up a copy and... the quote was the only interesting thing in it. But what a quote. I don't know of anything more relevant. If any of you want to explore Marion Milner, the place to start is "A Life of One's Own"- a work of original genius: https://www.amazon.com/Life-Ones-Own-Marion-Milner/dp/0415550653/ https://www.amazon.com/Life-Ones-Own-Marion-Milner/dp/041555.... Everyone says "think for yourself" but she actually did it. Oh and her brother won the Nobel Prize in physics. Quite a family.
    • pjmorris 4y ago
      Thank you!