The purpose of this study was to explore the image of the hidden, the invisible, and the unknown through an encounter with the mythic figures of Kore/Persephone, Demeter, Hekate, Hades, and Zeus in ...the Homeric “Hymn to Demeter.” This art-based research project culminated in an expressive arts video that engages the living images and subsequently provides an example of Jung’s statement from The Archetypes and the Collective Unconscious, “The most we can do is to dream the myth onward and give it a modern dress.” I utilized the Soul Story process, a method I previously co-developed with a partner, which includes (1) opening with a prompting or question to explore; (2) selecting props and attire for the mythical figures present; (3) engaging in the world in a form of active imagination that uses movement, emotional expressions, and the landscape to animate and embody the figures; (4) having a witness film the process while it unfolds; and (5) making a final video that reveals a story about the interactions. The Soul Story process allowed me to engage with a form of symbolic play that brought the main mythical figures found in the Persephone and Hades myth to life. In the end, this project offers a practical approach for how one might creatively enter inside a myth and embody the living images through a dramatic enactment with one’s imagination that moves the psyche into a more conscious relationship with the figures.
Art therapy and the image are active approaches to address the analytic third, an idea that was mentioned by C. G. Jung in the Psychology of the Transference, but was first experienced by him as ...described in The Red Book (2009). Jung's art-making was an impressive lifelong affair that relied upon mixed media, making it reasonable for us to consider Jung as the father of art therapy. Prior to the 1913 publication of Symbols of Transformation, Jung visited America for a second time; on this visit, the Jungian analyst Beatrice Hinkle introduced Jung to the Greenwich crowd. Among the noteworthy artists and activists were Margaret Naumburg and Florence Cane, who later established the field of art therapy in the United States. Despite the tension created from the Freud-Jung split, Naumburg and Cane were deeply influenced by Jung's theoretical ideas, initially via Hinkle, with whom they analyzed for three years. Requiring a safe passage for the birth of art therapy, Naumburg navigated an independent third way, but drew from many of Jung's already established ideas to formulate her research and educational approach. Because the historical details surrounding the development of art therapy in America are being stitched back into an art therapy education, Jung's early clinical insights regarding specific theoretical ideas gain visibility and respect. This overview acknowledges that analytical psychology remains a powerful and integral building block in the field of art therapy and offers relevant resources for theoretical and clinical formulations when working as an art therapist.
Toplumsal yapı ve sosyal hayatın en önemli problemlerinden biri olan kadın-erkek ilişkileri ve bu ilişkinin yarattığı sorunlar birey, aile, toplum üzerinde sosyolojik ve psikolojik açıdan oldukça ...etkilidir. Bireyin hayatının şekillenmesinde dönüm noktası niteliği taşıyan eş/sevgili/arkadaş seçimi, karşı cinsle olan iletişimini ortaya koymakta ve onun toplumsal yapıya uyum sağlamasına yardımcı olduğu gibi bu yapıdan uzaklaşmasına da neden olmaktadır. Kadın ve erkek ilişkilerini ekonomik, siyasi, sosyal, tarihi, dini şartlar kadar onların atalarından devraldıkları psikolojik miras da etkilemektedir. Carl Gustav Jung'un kolektif/toplumsal bilinç dışının ürünü olarak nitelendirdiği ve bireye ilk/arkaik insandan itibaren kültürel kodlar şeklinde aktarılan arketipler/ilk örnekler bireyin topluma uyum sağlamasında öncü rol üstlenirler. Kadının kalıtsal kolektif erkek imgesine "animus" erkeğin kalıtsal kolektif kadın imgesine "anima" adını veren Jung, her iki cinsin seçimlerinde etkili olan bu "ruh imgesi"nin bireyin hayatında kadın erkek ilişkilerini nasıl şekillendirdiğini ortaya koyar. Türk edebiyatının son dönem yazarlarından olan Buket Uzuner'in Ayın En Çıplak Günü adlı hikâye kitabında yer alan öyküler erkeklerin hayatlarında var olan kadınlarla içlerindeki taşıdıkları ebedi/hayali kadın imgelerinin yansımalarının farklı boyutlarını somutlaması ve örneklem oluşturması bakımından önem arz etmektedir. Çalışmada bu yansımalar üzerinden evrensel bir problem olarak insanlık tarihi boyunca toplumu meşgul eden "kadın-erkek" ilişkisinde atasal psikolojik mirasın izleri tespit edilecek ve erkeğin hayatında "dişil unsur"un etkileri okuyucu düzleminde görünür kılınacaktır.
Personal Images of the Sacred Wesley, Deborah
Psychological perspectives,
10/2019, Letnik:
62, Številka:
4
Journal Article
Recenzirano
Jung's works on religion focus on images of the divine, which people experience in various ways. Here, we consider a variety of such numinous experiences, ranging from childhood dreams to experiences ...of Christian saints and of 20th-century cult leaders, all of which can be described as images of God in the human psyche.
This personal account charts the changing relationship to a Jungian identity arising from the interrelated processes of understanding the roots of the colonial and racial ideologies that underpin ...Jung’s thinking, and a developing awareness of what it means to be a white person in a system of racism that maintains white supremacy. This is illustrated with reference to the image of a black man appearing in the dream of the white author and with use of post‐Jungian thinking to critique the notion of an objective, non‐racial psyche.
This manuscript was born underground. Following an obsession with roots and soil, these poems appeared one by one—as if pushing up from single seeds, surrounded in dampness. This collection of poetry ...is one that dives into the personal shadow’s archive of past selves. It teems with spirits, both human and natural. It descends into the dark necessarily, as a precursive measure of arching back up for the light; it honors the violence and the beauty within both. Its purpose is to trace a journey of release, return, and rebirth; to witness the divine’s hand in each cycle of growth.
Aims:
Dementia is being increasingly recognised as a major public health issue for our ageing populations. A critical aspect of supporting people with dementia is facilitating their participation in ...meaningful activities. However, research to date has not drawn on theories of ageing from developmental psychology that would help undergird the importance of such meaningful activity. For the first time, we connect existing activity provision for people with dementia with developmental psychology theories of ageing.
Method:
We reviewed the literature in two stages: first, we narratively searched the literature to demonstrate the relevance of psychological theories of ageing for provision of meaningful activities for people with dementia, and in particular focused on stage-based theories of adult development (Carl Jung and Erik Erikson), gerotranscendence (Tornstam), selective optimisation with compensation (Baltes and Baltes), and optimisation in primary and secondary control (Heckhausen and Schulz). Second, we systematically searched PubMed and PsycINFO for studies with people with dementia that made use of the aforementioned theories.
Results:
The narrative review highlights that activity provision for people with dementia goes beyond mere pleasure to meeting fundamental psychological needs. More specifically, that life review therapy and life story work address the need for life review; spiritual/religious activities address the need for death preparation; intergenerational activities address the need for intergenerational relationships; re-acquaintance with previously conducted leisure activities addresses the need for a sense of control and to achieve life goals; and pursuit of new leisure activities addresses the need to be creative. The systematic searches identified two studies that demonstrated the utility of applying Erikson’s theory of psychosocial development to dementia care.
Conclusion:
We argue for the importance of activity provision for people with dementia to help promote wellbeing among an increasing proportion of older people.
Despite a number of recent developments in broadening of the discipline, the field of Fashion Studies at large to date has been largely predominated by a pair of prevailing paradigms.
One of them is ...to address fashion as a monolithic phenomenon internally undifferentiated by diversity of creators, variety of production and distribution methods, and the evolving aesthetic tendencies. The other is to deny individual seasonal collections presented both in course, and outside the realms of, the international fashion week circuit, the agency to express complex concepts and sophisticated cultural critique through the encompassing medium of a fashion show or presentation in a manner such agency is readily granted to art exhibitions, dance and music performance, or literature. This article departs from both of the former tendencies by specifically addressing a unique seasonal fashion collection and the philosophical and critical questions developed within it. It will analyze the Spring/Summer 2018 Collection by Rodarte, presented as part of the Paris Haute Couture week on July 2, 2017, in the context of Georges Bataille's thesis of the imperative of complimentary dialectic between homogeneity and heterogeneity. Developing this subject, the following text will also approach the broader interrelated issues of eco fetishism and paradoxically co-existing socio-cultural discourses of valorization and denigration of femininity as they were addressed in the collection and its presentation.
•Public relations negotiate professional and individual practitioner identity.•Goffman observes ‘microsociology’ of identity formation as performance.•Jung claims outward identity can marginalise ...inner needs.•Such needs form hidden ‘underbelly’ or ‘backstage’ of identity.•Together, they offer insights into PR's individual and collective identity.
Public relations work involves shaping, reflecting and communicating identity for organisations and individuals, and is in turn shaped by the professional identity both of the field and individual public relations practitioners. This paper explores these issues from the dual perspectives of sociologist Erving Goffman's (1922–1982) reflections on the performance of work and Carl Jung's (1875–1961) concept of Persona, the socially acceptable face of the individual or group. The former explores these issues through observation of external behaviours, the latter by engaging with the psyche. Goffman and Jung, despite their conflicting worldviews, offer a complementary understanding of the operation, internal and external, of professional identity.
The paper, which is conceptual and interpretive, with the objective of building theory, summarises contemporary approaches to professional identity in public relations and other fields, before introducing Goffman, who is often mentioned in this context, and Jung, who is not. Together these two scholars offer insights into the interior and exterior aspects of identity, which is here applied to public relations, raising questions both about the production of identity as a commodity for others and the production of self-image of public relations practitioners. The introduction of Jungian thinking brings the inward or experiential dimension of professional identity to this debate.
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