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Themes, Assumptions, Principles, and Practice Dimensions of Parse’s TheoryTHEMES

ASSUMPTIONS

PRINCIPLES

PRACTICE DIMENSIONS

COMMENTS

Meaning Rhythmicity Transcendence Explication of the Human Becoming Perspective of the Hermeneutic Processes of Discoursing, Interpreting, and UnderstandingTHEME EXPLICATIONMeaning

“Discoursing is the interplay of shared and unshared meanings through which beliefs are appropriated and disappropriated. A text

, as something written

and read, is a form of discourse. Author and reader are discoursing whenever the text is read” (Cody, 1995, p. 275).

Rhythmicity

“Interpreting is expanding the meaning moment through dwelling in situated openness with the disclosed and the hidden. Interpret

ing a text is constructing

meanings with the text through the rhythmic movement between the language of the text and the language of the researcher” (Cody,

1995, p. 275).

Transcendence

“Understanding is choosing from possibilities a unique way of moving beyond the meaning moment. Understanding a text is interwea

ving the meaning of

the text with the pattern of one’s life in a chosen way” (Cody, 1995c, p. 276).

Human becoming is freely

choosing personal meaning in situations in the intersubjec-tive process of relating valuepriorities.

Human becoming is cocreating

rhythmical patterns of relatingin open interchange with theuniverse.

Human becoming is transcending

multidimensionally with theunfolding possibles.

Structuring meaning multidimen-

sionally is cocreating realitythrough the languaging ofvaluing and imaging.

Cocreating rhythmical patterns

of relating is living the para-doxical unity of revealing-concealing, enabling-limiting,while connecting-separating.

Cotranscending with the possi-

bles is powering originating inthe process of transforming.

Illuminating meaning is shedding

light through uncovering thewhat was, is, and will be, as itis appearing now; it happensin explicating what is.

Synchronizing rhythms happens

in dwelling with the pitch, yaw,and roll of the interhumancadence.

Mobilizing transcendence hap-

pens in moving beyond themeaning moment to what isnot-yet.

People always participate in creating their real-

ities through choosing how to understandand interpret experiences. Expressing one-self clarifies values and furthers understand-ing of experiences.

People live potentialities with actualities all-at-

once; the apparent opposite of what is inthe fore of experience is always also pres-ent with us. Exploring options in the atten-tive, loving presence of another is a way ofconnecting-separating with others in theuniverse.

People live with change in chosen ways that

evolve into patterns of living that alsochange over time. Coparticipating in changethrough one’s choice affirms self and cocre-ates with the universe what will be. By ex-ploring options in the presence of another,one moves beyond what is to what isnot yet.

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