Post by Libraraptor on Sept 9, 2008 14:43:56 GMT
I´d like to show you an interview with German psychologist Dietrich Dörner. It´s about collecting and I translated it for you. Maybe the one or the other of you can identify with his conclusions. To be honest - I sometimes felt caught in the act, although I have a very satisfying social life 
Check yourselves and stay wakeful 
I´m curiously waiting for your comments.
Here´s what the interview says:
What kind of emotional need is it that makes us become
gatherers?
Dörner: Everyone has the necessity of coping with his environment. This has become confusing in our big world. Thus it is only natural that people create their own small worlds where they can cope with - alternate worlds so to say. When a collector can complete a series of stamps or finds a first edition of a book in a second hand bookshop, this are feelings of success balancing defeats from everyday life and adjusting the balance of competence.
Why do some people discover their passion for collecting while others learn a musical instrument and others are active athletically?
Dörner: Playing tennis or making music requires a certain amount of talent.
You mean only people without any talents do collect?
Dörner: This would be a very hostile interpretation of this leisure activity. It would be true for collectors of coasters or beer mugs , but collecting can also assume a big amount of analytic expertise. The art collector for example wants to have a department under control that normally stands for big interest and knowledge. He wants to contemplate on his pictures everyday and wants to communicate about them with others.
People depending on collecting emotionally so strongly that it leads to an addiction are often isolated socially. What kind of people are they?
Dörner: Compulsive collectors are people cut off from certain possibilities of acquiring senses of achievement , for whatever reasons. They are people that have become lonely due to the lack of a partner or friends. People having no other chance of building up social contacts due to their high age. For these people their hobby becomes their purpose on life. The acquisition of demanded objects for them beats everything else in meaning. Addicts bury themselves deeper and deeper into their alternative worlds , isolate themselves awarely because they don´t trust in the world very much. Their passion for collecting is a kind of escape.
Check yourselves and stay wakeful 
I´m curiously waiting for your comments.Here´s what the interview says:
What kind of emotional need is it that makes us become
gatherers?
Dörner: Everyone has the necessity of coping with his environment. This has become confusing in our big world. Thus it is only natural that people create their own small worlds where they can cope with - alternate worlds so to say. When a collector can complete a series of stamps or finds a first edition of a book in a second hand bookshop, this are feelings of success balancing defeats from everyday life and adjusting the balance of competence.
Why do some people discover their passion for collecting while others learn a musical instrument and others are active athletically?
Dörner: Playing tennis or making music requires a certain amount of talent.
You mean only people without any talents do collect?
Dörner: This would be a very hostile interpretation of this leisure activity. It would be true for collectors of coasters or beer mugs , but collecting can also assume a big amount of analytic expertise. The art collector for example wants to have a department under control that normally stands for big interest and knowledge. He wants to contemplate on his pictures everyday and wants to communicate about them with others.
People depending on collecting emotionally so strongly that it leads to an addiction are often isolated socially. What kind of people are they?
Dörner: Compulsive collectors are people cut off from certain possibilities of acquiring senses of achievement , for whatever reasons. They are people that have become lonely due to the lack of a partner or friends. People having no other chance of building up social contacts due to their high age. For these people their hobby becomes their purpose on life. The acquisition of demanded objects for them beats everything else in meaning. Addicts bury themselves deeper and deeper into their alternative worlds , isolate themselves awarely because they don´t trust in the world very much. Their passion for collecting is a kind of escape.
,and,most important,i'd NEVER consider my collecting hobby as the most important thing in my life...It's fun and all,it can help sometimes when someone needs to relax himself for a while (just like listening to music or watching a movie),but then again,it's just FUN 
then it's all about fury and revenge...And then, yeah, getting over it.
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