عنوان

An analytical psychology view of wholeness in art

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LA112766

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Title Proper

An analytical psychology view of wholeness in art

General Material Designation

[Article]

First Statement of Responsibility

Robert Matthews

Place of Publication, Distribution, etc.

Leiden

Name of Publisher, Distributor, etc.

Brill

Text of Note

This paper examines the creative practice and product of the visionary artist, the artist who brings forth a new vision of wholeness for the social group. A description of the general creative process is provided according to Jung's view of the transcendent function. It is by this process that a new vision may be understood to arise. The activity and product of the visionary artist is then reified by situating it within an historical conception of the God-image and as a cultural canon. Drawing from Neumann, three phases or roles of the visionary artist are discussed: the establishment of a culture's new vision, the maintaining of the culture's existing vision, and the enduring of the fragmentation of a culture's 'exhausted' vision. A more detailed account, including examples, is then given for the role of the visionary artist within the present state of the West's cultural cannon - a state of fragmentation or, as it often known, the wasteland; a time when the spiritual wholeness has broken down. Finally the artist Peter Birkhäuser is briefly discussed to query the role that analytical psychology may explicitly play in supporting the visionary artist. This paper examines the creative practice and product of the visionary artist, the artist who brings forth a new vision of wholeness for the social group. A description of the general creative process is provided according to Jung's view of the transcendent function. It is by this process that a new vision may be understood to arise. The activity and product of the visionary artist is then reified by situating it within an historical conception of the God-image and as a cultural canon. Drawing from Neumann, three phases or roles of the visionary artist are discussed: the establishment of a culture's new vision, the maintaining of the culture's existing vision, and the enduring of the fragmentation of a culture's 'exhausted' vision. A more detailed account, including examples, is then given for the role of the visionary artist within the present state of the West's cultural cannon - a state of fragmentation or, as it often known, the wasteland; a time when the spiritual wholeness has broken down. Finally the artist Peter Birkhäuser is briefly discussed to query the role that analytical psychology may explicitly play in supporting the visionary artist.

Date of Publication

2015

Physical description

124-138

Title

International Journal of Jungian Studies

Volume Number

7/2

International Standard Serial Number

1940-9060

Subject Term

artist;

Subject Term

creativity

Subject Term

Jung;

Subject Term

numinous;

Subject Term

wholeness;

Robert Matthews

Call Number

10.1080/19409052.2014.954753

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p

[Article]

275578

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Y