Paisagem psíquica: uma técnica expressiva com fundamento na psicologia analítica - estudo piloto

Abstract

An expressive technique developed by the author of the research was applied, having analytical psychology as background and highlighting the creative aspect evoked by the use of expressive resources. It is a research focused on the qualitative aspect of a pilot study which aimed at demonstrating the functioning of the technique, baptized Psychic Landscape, and perform a symbolic reading from the associations made by the subjects of the research. The technique was inspired by the method of active imagination by C. G. Jung. Regarding the specificity of the technique, which produces abstract configurations, the theme has been tackled from the point of view of art and analytical psychology. The conclusion that abstraction is a genuine mode of expression was reached. Two participants could experience the technique during consecutive days and from the data collected it was possible to map the psychic transformations that occurred. Symbols and themes of individual and collective character appeared, and it was possible to observe common aspects between the processes of both participants. The specificity of the expressive technique pointed at the polarity of dynamics, in special the fluidity of water and solidity of plaster, to the correlation between the surface image, closer to the dynamics of consciousness, and the one at the bottom, closer to the unconscious, and to the connection between the preparatory phase of the technique (the way of pouring the water, depositing and mixing the plaster) and the final configuration. The study demonstrated the effectiveness of the technique as the transmutation effect of an inner reality that reveals itself by means of creative actions that give rise to plastic images