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Question: Psychological/Philosophical concept!?
I'm not sure if this concept is defined but I was wondering if there was a theory or word that describes it!. It is this: to one person a situation may be desperate and severe, but to another person they find the situation ridiculous and trivial!. In the end, the 1st person feels like their problem is surreal, they feel stupid for feeling the way they did!. This concept is best dramatized by the film Best Laid Plans with Reese Witherspoon, where the main guy finds out that his fear was caused by a phony set-up from his friend to get his money!. It is also seen at the end of Lord of the Flies when the adults look at the kids like, "What the heck happened!?", but only the surviving kids know the hell they have been through!. I want to say the word is subjective, but it is so much more than that!.Www@QuestionHome@Com
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I think this would be subtle dramatic irony!.Www@QuestionHome@Com
Psychological and Philosophical seem only distant cousins!. You can examine Psychiatry from a philosophical perspective!. I suppose as a shrink you could well incorporate philosophy in your practice!.
Otherwise they are really two different realms, dreamed about separately!. Psychiatry is much more fact based and definable, while philosophy can be ethereal and inconclusive!.
The very same situation, shifted by time and angle of you perspective, could appear mundane where it once was horrifying!. Everything depends on "with relation to what"!.Www@QuestionHome@Com
I can't really think of a word that fits with that concept!. But what I saw mentally when I read was 2 people's view of an ice berg!. One person is above the water and sees just the tip of the ice berg!. The other person is below the water and sees the larger portion of the ice berg!.Www@QuestionHome@Com