MPT

Dear Friends and Colleagues,

I have been researching the Masako Point theory and here is what I have come across so far. This is from a swiss performance-art catalogue I found at the National Library. There isn't much information available on MPT or DeTryullard himself, but I shall keep researching and will keep you updated on my findings. SC

Jon DeTryullard

The Masako Point Theory (MPT), in French Le Point Masako, is one of the most controversial yet influential theories in psychology, and was developed by Jon DeTryullard (see picture), a Swiss psychologist (1939–2001). Besides playing a major role in modern psychology and psychoanalysis, his theory provided many central concepts in the field of semiotics, as it proposed a new perception of reality, or as DeTryullard himself coined it, Re-Per-Ce (i.e. to re-perceive, or re-examine). The Masako Point Theory concerns the ability to shift one’s perception of reality as a whole given a new paradigm. Often shown to be an involuntary procedure on the part of the patient, this shift can also be triggered when certain coordinates that affect perception are dramatically inversed.
Although some schools of thought would disagree, DeTryullard’s work on Masako Point Theory has often been associated with Piaget and his constructivist theory of knowing, which, in terms of growth of intelligence meant the ability to more accurately represent the world and perform logical operations on representations of concepts grounded in the world. Though entirely different in its foundations, the two theories share some similarities.
MPT has been considered controversial for its dangerous nature as it can produce an effect not entirely dissimilar from that of a drug-induced state or of high-alertness and new awareness such as the visual descriptions of religious epiphanies.