Philosophy of life / Psychologist's advice
I offer you a small projective experiment. To do this, you just need to answer the question. “If I were a Great Artist, my most famous painting would have been…”
So the answer to the test is:
1.Nature. Life-creation as the basis of a great being, a unified system of consciousness of the World. Acceptance and designation of one’s spiritual and material part in a harmonious balance of reality. The ability to receive and give not as a sacrifice, but for the sake of symbiotic creation and partnership. The symbol tells about how the world works, the Universe, man, reveals the innermost meaning of life. Life for life. If you do not know the laws of life and fate, it may seem unfair, chaotic.
2. Portrait of a man. The symbol of our ego. I am what I imagine and believe in. The persona is a mask of the collective psyche. It is a compromise between the individual and the social. A person is an appearance, a two-dimensional reality, an equilibrium result of the interaction of the archetypes of the Persons of an individual and the people interacting with him. The mask can be considered as a boundary between the psyche and the social world, which differs significantly for different parts of the world, forming interfaces through which the psyche and the world interact, exchanging information, emotions and energy. Thus, a portrait is a search for the role of oneself. And life-creativity is the opportunity in the process of searching for oneself to recognize one’s unique facets and possibilities.
3. Abstract figures. The secrets and ciphers of one’s own soul, like strands of DNA, are woven into thoughts and feelings, and, like the cells of an organism, create a great structure of the Soul. Cognition of a sensual, unconscious structure is the basis of life-creation. Abstraction is a distraction in the process of cognition from non-essential aspects, properties, relations of an object in order to highlight their essential, regular features. Abstraction seems to transcend reality, appearance. Transcendence (from the Latin transcendens – “transcending, going beyond”) is characterized by cognition that is fundamentally inaccessible to experience or is not based on experience. In a broad sense, the transcendent is understood as a “otherworldly” looking into oneself, mysterious and misunderstood – this is the basis of life-creation.
4. Scenes from life. An important social basis of being and creation. A parent builds a home for a child, so our social base is necessary as a support for survival. To create your life for others and for the sake of others, service, communication, contact, exchange of energies, experience – this is the basis that will be the energy for creativity. Perception of oneself through the prism of the other, the other through the prism of oneself in the system of values and structures of society.
C. G. Jung defined mental functions as follows:
In accordance with the predominant function, Jung distinguishes the thinking, sensual, sensing and intuitive types of personality. Taking into account the “type of installation”, each of them can be both extraverted and introverted, which in total gives “eight visual psychological types”.
So, analyzing the drawing, one can see both the archetype as a program and how it functions.
Let’s try with an example: “If I were a Great artist, my most famous painting would show…”
This is how you can understand the nature of the process through the choice of symbol.
1. Harmonious creation in the rhythms of nature. Creation of beauty for balance and harmony (I-self). Sensation is perception through the senses.
2.Knowing yourself and your multi-possibilities. Creation to explore their potentials, check roles (I-image). Thinking is that function which, following its own laws, brings the data of the content of representations into a conceptual connection.
3. Creation of a new, misunderstood, unique. Discovering oneself in a new way (I-unknown). Intuition is a function that conveys perception to the subject in an unconscious way. The subject of such perception can be everything – both external and internal objects or their combinations.
4. Processes and characters of life as the main factor of creation. Others and I as a motive for movement (I-social). Feeling is a function that gives the content a certain value in the sense of accepting or rejecting it. The feeling is based on value judgments: good – bad, beautiful – ugly.
Victoria Nazarevich 2019 ©
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