AT Hist. Quiz 1 Flashcards
(37 cards)
Manifest Content
Latent Content
Manifest- The actuality of a dream image, what is apparent to conscious awareness
Latent- The Underlying cues, what is being revealed of our unconscious
Framework for Freedom
An art piece is a container for whatever you project on to an art piece. The ISness of a piece. An Art piece as something that holds space for whatever is being expressed/said/felt
Form As Content
Part of the 3 Lenses
First step of analyzing a piece- look at the formal concepts being presented. Shape/Line/Color/Pressure in Line, etc.
Ego Strength
independent, willful, confident, internal standards, thoughtful disagreement
The Act of Sublimation is an Ego Strength
Regression in the Service of the Ego
To tolerate the strong emotion and regress into a state of acceptance to power through the feeling and make art from the initial urge
1.Cultivating inner resources to handle impulses (delay gratification) and frustrations (cognitive dissonance).
2. Postponing gratification
3. Managing impulses
4. The capacity to forgive
5. The capacity for compassion 6. Flexibility
7. Independence, agency, autonomy
• Region of the frontal cortex – reasoning our way to impulse control
Otto Rank
1-Experience of parents will.
2-discover ones own will in response to parents. Either adopt the parents will, or partially rebel from their will and feel guilt, or fully differentiate and establish and independent will from parents
Kris Ernst- Ego Strength
- Regression here refers to relaxing inner control or loosening defenses in order to discover what is beyond our defended state.
It is a process where the primary process (impulses and urges) is brought under the guidance of the secondary process (ego). - It takes a strong ego to relax its need to control and access what has been inhibited or avoided. The key here is flexibility – flexibility to relax defenses.
- In art, the process can afford us controlled titrated regressions. Within this perspective, regression is adaptive.
- Movement in therapy =’s access to controlled regressions.
- Other considerations: surrender to being in ambiguity, beginners mind, releasing habit and the familiar and accessing the unfamiliar, accepting that there are no immediate answers – staying present with the questions, loss of boundaries, pursuing radical honesty with oneself.
Loosens defenses
Primary & Secondary Processes
Primary Process- Illogical Ideas, Emerge From Id
Ex- Char and Michael have legs
Secondary Processes- Reality Based, Logical thinking
Ties into regression of the ego as a strength- Kris Ernst
Interpretive Strategies:
Grids Of Awareness
Grids of Awareness:
Developmental History
Cultural History
Family/Marital History
Art As A Sample Of 3 Behaviors
Cognitive – ordering/sequencing, selecting/combining, memory, perception, 2-D & 3-D translation.
• Affective – giving feeling form and art as an accurate language of emotion
• Kinesthetic –eye/hand, fine and gross motor movement; remembering the centrality of the body – the ultimate feedback mechanism.
What is an Ego?
The ego has two functions or purposes:
• The functional aspect of the ego consists of organizing and synthesizing impressions
from the outside world and our inner responses to these impressions.
• It is as if there is an inner manager helping us to negotiate the world, protecting and
guiding us along the way from confusing inner and outer perceptions.
• The ego, often experienced from the perspective of “I”, is our reasoning ability to work
with distortions of thinking.
• This “I” perspective thinks itself to be in charge and in control and yet it is really limited.
I am…
I want…
I feel…
I believe…
Auxiliary Ego
3rd Hand. Therapist models proper ego strength for cultivate a living example of what this may be
Pattern Match In Artist History
Looking for recurring patterns in a artists work
EX Heavy Lined Hand
Art As An Event
Context: surrounding conditions, the setting of an event, the parts of something.
Mood: feeling present in the image, pervading tone of the image.
Scene: where the event is taking place – a landscape, incident, or place. Narrative alive within the image.
Interpretive Strategies: When Initially Viewing piece
Ask, Clarify, Summarize, Affirm
Adrian Hill
1940
Officially Coined the Term Art Therapy
Who is Hans Prinzhorn?
German art historian and psychiatrist
• Prinzhorn discussed subtleties of form and content but not for diagnosis…“Anyone unable to make a diagnosis without the drawings will certainly not have an easier time with them.”
-First to note how important art is for different mental states
Prinzhorns 6 motivations for art making
- externalization of self
- urge to play
- urge to ornament
- ordering tendency
- imitative tendency
- need for symbols
Florence Naumberg Cane
Florence (Naumburg) Cane (1882-1952)
• Progressive art educator; integrated thought, movement, & feeling into process
Introduced Scribble technique, brought in art teacher as important technique, advocate for children’s rights to express themselves, the OG Naropa Transpersonal student, beautiful painting
Creativity is in both active and receptive states
Supportive approach that activation and union of functions take part in art
Edith Kramer
Sublimation
Coined Art As Therapy
Fled Nazis in 1938 for the US
• Settled in New York working in alternative schools
• Many concepts in harmony with art education
• Sublimation is key in art therapy
• “Art as Therapy” model
Classic Kramer
• Sublimation: an ego-defense mechanism whereby frustrated sexual / aggressive energy is partially channeled into substitutive activities.
• (These activities which do not serve direct instinctual gratification).
• Primitive Id urges (asocial) transformed by the ego into complex and socially productive
activities (they may not always be socially acceptable).
Classic Naumberg Cane
• “The process of dynamically oriented art therapy is based on the recognition that man’s fundamental thoughts and feelings are derived from the unconscious and often reach expression in images rather than in words.
• By means of pictorial projection, art therapy encourages a method of symbolic communication between patient and therapist.
• Its images may, as in psychoanalytic procedures, also deal with the data of dreams, fantasies, daydreams, fears, conflicts and childhood memories.”
Eleanor Ulman
Founded and edited Art Therapy. Makes the field what it is today
Editor of the American Journal of Art Therapy
Margaret Naumberg
Published first books – influenced by psychoanalytic thought and Jungian thought
Worldly perspective: Eastern philosophy, depth psychologies
Symbolic Speech as art
Psychotherapist
Dynamically oriented- integration of ego strengths and resources
Hanna K.
Founded Family Therapy
Victor Lowenfeld
Worked with blind people and they still had an inherit need to create art
Influenced Edith Kramer
Art helps you achieve emotional release
