Jung, art and the two minds.
"The artist is not a person endowed with free will who seeks his own ends, but one who allows art to realize its purposes through him. As a human being he may have moods and a will and personal aims, but as an artist he is 'man' in a higher sense - he is 'collective man,' a vehicle and molder of the unconscious psychic life of mankind." ~Carl Jung, Psychology and Literature, 1930i
“Jung regarded the psychic energy as a basic life-force which would manifest itself as needed (eating, moving, thinking, sex, remembering, etc.) not concentrating through childhood in various body zones (oral, anal, genital) as Freud envisaged. The psychic energy resembled physical energy: it could be exchanged with the external world in a muscular effort or ingestion of food, but otherwise remained as a reservoir to be used for thought, sexual activity, artistic creation and so on.
The ego was a person’s conception of himself: his sense of identity, his memories, his understanding of his physical and mental makeup. The personal unconscious is interior to the ego, and corresponds to a mix of Freud’s unconscious and preconscious. Containing elements of the outside world and of personal experiences repressed by the ego, the contents of the personal unconscious can be accessed by therapy, art and cultural expression.” [Read more] ~C. John Holcombeii
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Jung, Carl, “Psychology and Literature,” translated by W.S. Dell and Cary F. Bayes, in Modern Man in Search of a Soul, Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, New York, 1955. Rpt. Art and Its Significance: An Anthology of Aesthetic Theory. Stephan David Ross. Contributor Stephan David Ross. Albany: SUNY Press, 1984. 513. |
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