Mirroring and attunement: Self-realization in psychoanalysis and art

“We make something with the flower, but feel like I make with myself something”: The role of a community arts project supporting women who have experienced human trafficking

“…Flowers as art objects came to symbolically stand for aspects of the self that the participant was grappling with. This accords with psychoanalytic theories highlighting self‐discovery as inherent in artistic creation (Wright, 2009). For the participants, these aspects of self included sensitivity, individuality, growth, opening up, and value.…”

“…This accords with psychoanalytic theories highlighting self-discovery as inherent in artistic creation (Wright, 2009).…”

Perspectives on the Real, the Imaginary, and the Music in Gim

“…The traveler creates the music, which is at the same time something externally provided, without knowing in advance what he needs and what he is ready to create. This he only recognizes through what the music provides as resonating form (Wright, 2009) where there could potentially be endless different possibilities of realization. What the traveler needs to experience, or is ready to create, is never something predetermined.…”

From subconscious to self-consciousness through an art therapy method-based example: ATB-SHOT squiggle task.

“…The similarity between CPSC and anthropocentric experience is that both contain the experience that one's emotions, thoughts, acts, and world are meaningful and relevant, and external happenings are in accordance with internal realities and accommodating and interacting with one's surroundings. According to Wright (2009), Winnicott (1960), and Neumann (1963Neumann ( /1973, Masterson (2013) the development of such an anthropocentric experience lies in the relationship with the primary caregiver in early childhood and attachment. In preverbal relational experiences, the caregiver balances inconvenient or painful experiences by containing, mirroring, and regulating the negative emotions, which ends up providing a safe environment for the infant to be themselves.…”

“…Analytical psychologists have always considered art as a path to mental health and personal growth that gives meaning, compensates for a lack of meaning, and helps the psyche to regulate and heal itself (Jung, 1961;Swan-Foster, 2016. Wright (2009) states that-just as in art therapy-reflectiveness and containment can happen in art. Jung (1964) and Neumann (1959) both considered primary processes such as images, symbols, fantasy, dream, artistic expression, and play to be the language of the subconscious.…”