Four axioms of communication
The five axioms of communication!
Watzlawick’s Axioms of Communication
July 12, 2021 AURELIS Syllabus, CommunicationNo Comments
… in relation to AURELIS.
Paul Watzlawick (1921 – 2007) has been one of the best-known thinkers about communication.
Four axioms of communication
His central tenet was that a lot of communication is carried on below the level of consciousness. It happens automatically.
I put his five ‘axioms of communication’ in a table and comment on them from an AURELIS standpoint, not in the sense of a ‘discussion’ but as what they spontaneously make me think of when musing about them.
Would Watzlawick have agreed?
| WATZLAWICK | AURELIS |
| Axiom 1: “One cannot not communicate.” | The deeper self is always present and active, in many ways at once: in ‘parallel processing’. |
| Axiom 2: “Every communication has a content and relationship aspect such that the latter classifies the former and is, therefore, a meta-communication.” | Apart from the ‘relationship,’ many other elements play s
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