Gestalt

/ge'SHtalt/

"An organized whole

that is perceived 

as more than

the sum of

its parts.."

the lordly elephant

is that whole

with all of

those strange parts..

do parts perceive

their life subsumed..?

and of our body

and parts

brother elephant is

our model..

but what of our

body as part..?

or the elephant

as part..?

how strange those

whole elephants
must be

up there...!

"The fundamental "formula" of Gestalt theory might be expressed in this way,” Max Wertheimer wrote. "There are wholes, the behaviour of which is not determined by that of their individual elements, but where the part-processes are themselves determined by the intrinsic nature of the whole. It is the hope of Gestalt theory to determine the nature of such wholes" (1924).