by Jean-Jacques COURTEY, Doctor in Economic Geography, Ph. D
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This article is a following of a previous article untiltled : "Uchronic history III : the power of "Zeigarnik Effect !", published on December 12th, 2018, on Global Poilitics and Economics.
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The "Ovsiankina Effect" is often confused with the "Zeigarnik Effect".
But the latter comes first normally.
And it's only after the "Zeigarnik Effect" has produced its maximal expression, that it is possible to talk about the other one (in 99% of cases).
At a certain moment, when the "Zeigarnik effect" is decreasing, everything seems to cool down for a while. It looks suddenly far weaker. And at this step, everybody is really thinking it's over.
But no, unexpectedly the "Ovsiankina Effect" may then take place, even it looks imperceptible at the beginning : that's the very reason of its troubling manifestation !
The "Ovsiankina Effect" is drawing its name from Maria Ovsiankina (1898 - 1993), a colleague of the famous Bluma Zeigarnik (1900 - 1988) in the Institute of Psychology of Berlin.
Both of them were working on the manifestation of "Gestalt" (concerning the structure and the dynamics of personality in psychology), under the direction of Professor Kurt Lewin (1890 - 1947). To be more precise "Gestalt" is a German word meaning "shape, form, or configuration", used by Kurt Lewin to design "the structure of perceptions" : it can apply to an individual of course, but also to a group or a collectivity, through his "Field Theory".
This Professor directed noticeably those two Russian students in Berlin.
And in 1933, he left an unsafe Germany to emigrate to America, and became an American. He was specialized in "Research-Action".
The "Ovsiankina Effect" is the tendency to pick up an unfinished or interrupted action, with the renewed will to finish it.
But as it works similarly to the "Zeigarnik Effect", it can explain why people intend easily to make a confusion between them.
In this new effect, succeeding potentially the first one, the thoughts are very intrusive and rather automatic too.
It is acting as if people were under the influence of a strong force, a kind of need which is compulsive.
They feel then, that they have to follow the impulsions of this mysterious force, to feel better and free themselves.
It is even possibly becoming their n°1 aim in their everyday life. And obviously, it may affect their whole destiny, as well as the destiny of other people.
Nowadays, The "Zeigarnik Effect" and the "Ovsiankina Effect" are used in couple, in order to achieve things, and strangely also to relieve stress (individual approach).
They can apply to various activities and tasks, which from unattainable, become by their strange magic...finally reachable. They operate like Special Effects in cinema.
The temporary release or detachment between the two inter-related effects, usually creates a psychological inner trigger which ensures the final success of the integrated approach.
Their skilled combination can create a deep impression of great relief and recovery.
But we musn't forget that basically, their co-involvement is commonly used in Marketing.
They can also explain more widely the development of larger collective events (collective approach), with sometimes the sudden change of historicity.
The "Ovsiankina Effect" following the "Zeigarnik Effect", is often underestimated by observers nowadays.
But if you take the case of the aborted Russian Revolution of 1905 in Petrograd, you understand better the success of the Revolution of 1917 in Petrograd too, with a certain Lenin (Vladimir Ilyich Ulyanov - 1870 - 1924).
In 1906-1907, the Ochrana (Secret Police of the Tsar) could have easily put an end to his revolutionary activity. But, for impenetrable reasons, it didn't do it. On the opposite, he was used as a provocative agent to divide the Social-Democratic Movement of Russia.
The result was the Ochrana (which wasn't terribly loyal to the last Tsar), accelerated the fall of the Tsarist regime, by multiplying the "Ovsiankina Effect".
The "Ovsiankina Effect" can seem small and sinuous in its beginnings, but like a river in spate it can provoke a flood.
Another comparison can be made with a Naja haje. When it is in its basket, this royal snake of Egypt looks dormant and inoffensive. But, when the player of flute is playing music, this Egyptian Cobra is standing from the basket. And if music is over suddenly ceasing, it may bite stealthily and accurately !
Psychology is very rich in concepts, which are far more practical and effective than people intend to think.
Don't forget the Subconscious is representing between 70 to 90% of the psychology of an individual !
If you make an easy operation, you understand straight away that the Conscious is only representing what is remaining.
The percentage of 30% Consciousness is applying only to very evolved people, who have a great self-control. But most people are nearer to only 10% Consciousness. So you can understand why symbols are controlling their life : symbols are the proper language of the Subconscious, which impact is deep and rather immediate.
And, in the case of a group or a more largely a crowd, the latter percentage is often less !
To end on a lighter and more humorous note, a lot of people ignore Lenin declared that "Communism is Soviet power plus Electrification", in connection with his short stay in France.
In 1911, he shortly lived in Paris. But it got on his nerves, and he moved quickly to the nearby Longjumeau for several months (where he established a school of Communism), in between the two Revolutions quoted above.
Him - and his wife Nadezhda Krupskaya (1869 - 1939) - had so many difficulties to get electricity installed in Paris, that it strongly came back as an "Ovsiankina Effect" in his new doctrine !
Last but not least, something is never said about the conjugation of the "Zeigarnik Effect" with the "Ovsiankina Effect" : if you permute them by order of manifestation (by reversing thus the order of appearance), you can neutralize any "Spin Program" of mind control. With a rather frequent boomerang effect, in a "Spin program" daredevil experimenters can be punished themselves. And this permutation is a "highway" for Freedom, and not only in Maryland (USA). It can be observed whatever the "Spin program" is recent, or on the contrary dating back several centuries. Even if those concepts are quite modern, Retroaction can be efficient for human exposure !
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