| Abstract: | I have two professional interests: the law and the psyche. Despite the apparent absence of common ground between these two domains, at some level within me they have always been connected. Although I felt the connection, and intuitively it seemed “correct” to me, it was not a relationship that colleagues in either profession appeared to share at any level; and it was not one I could rationally describe to them. So I decided to make my feelings about the connection more conscious. I wanted to do this, in part, to gain personal insight, and also to stimulate a dialogue between the members of my two professional communities. I thought that an amplification of the Western symbol of justice would provide a simple vehicle. As it turned out, the project was not so easy. In fact, it was a straight-out struggle. Part of the difficulty I encountered arose because even before I began to research the topic or write about my findings, I “knew” the result that I would reach —and that result was based upon a static view of justice and its image. But the images of the symbol I found did not cooperate with the end I foresaw. Instead, they revealed a developmental sequence of justice as a vibrant, dynamic human process evolving within us. I was just not prepared to find that. |
