, English, Book, Illustrated edition: Foundation and form in Jungian sandplay : an art therapy approach / Lenore Steinhardt. Steinhardt, Lenore,
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They have in common the use of symbols, but in Sandplay the ready-made object is easily accessible in such a wide range that sometimes an art-maker will choose Sandplay to give form to a deep issue without conscious acknowledgement Steinhardt, Sand can be molded while wet into simple large structures, but when dry, they fall apart. When sand is fired, the silica content becomes glass.
Our earth surface formed in the presence of sunlight and rain that generated development of plant and animal species in cycles of growth and decay.
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Clay is fine earth found in caves or river beds where fresh water streams. Clay can be molded into subtle forms while in a wet pliable state. When dry it retains its shape, and when fired clay becomes stone-like. Thus earth or clay is closer in time to human culture and consciousness while sand connects us psychically to the beginning of creation on earth.
Artists Picasso, Braque, Gris began to incorporate objects into their paintings around At about the same time verylarge objects became part of paintings Robert Rauschenberg ,common objects such as beer cans and flags Jaspar Johns and Brillo boxes Andy Warhol became sculptures themselves.
The Sandplay therapist who is an art therapist will be able to view the sandtray as a container for artistic creativity, within which an array of assorted objects are chosen and carefully placed,meaningful to the sandplayer, with no verbal explanationnecessary.
The bas-relief historically is a partially three-dimensional sculpture that tells a story. It is not independent but always attached to a larger structuresuch as a public monument, and its use of space is illusory for example the PergamonFrieze in the Berlin Museum, ca. A miniature collection contains people of all ages and kinds, gods, goddesses and fairy tale characters, animals from land, sea and air, plants, sky powers, natural objects, man-made structures such as houses, bridges, wells, portals and fences, vehicles, and any other object that the therapist finds interesting.
Often beautiful objects such ascrystals, or an object that activates a personal memory are chosen in an early stage. It may represent something in the personal unconscious, or the collective unconscious. However, Jung had to break with Freud when he drew a sharp distinction between the Personal Unconscious and the Collective Unconscious, whose contents are known as archetypes. Archetypes are the typical patterns of human experience and behavior, i.
Archetypes arrange psychic elements into certain images, in such a way that they can be recognized only from the effects they produce. It is not just a gigantic historical prejudice, so to speak, an a priori historical condition; but it is also the source of the instincts, for the archetypes are simply the forms which the instincts assume. The symbols it creates are always grounded in the unconscious archetype, but their manifest forms are moulded by the ideas acquired by the conscious mind.
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We find the archetypal in symbol dictionaries, myths and fairy tales. When we relate to an animal or plant as a symbol we should know its evolutionary process and biological history and habits in addition to myths and folklore concerning it.
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On the cultural level, we need to know something about the culture of the people we work with. Personal associations about particular images or objects should be considered. Afisherman can be visualized as a configuration of four entities comprised of two pairs of opposites: These two pairs are connected by a fifth entity- the fishing line. The fish in pre-historic art was often depicted inside the womb of the Goddess, as a symbol of fertility and becoming Gimbutas, , p.
The symbolic stance of being the fisherman is then the unconscious awareness of the capacity to focus energy on independent self-nurturing, on gaining deeper understanding, and the search for creative power, fish being the creations of the sea, the unconscious. Fish are symbols of fertility and due to their emergence in water they are considered to be protected from evil. In the Middle East fish appear on a common hand- shaped talisman known as a Hamsa.
The instinctive, emotional and tempestuous Greek God of the sea, Poseidon, carries a trident, symbolically a triple phallus, providing life-giving moisture to fertilize the earth Bolen, The fisherman and his fish can symbolize the joint work of patient and therapist in therapy - trying to fish into our unconscious and access the treasures below the surface. The image that becomes a symbol is a living vessel whose contents are constantly enriched by the imagination of all those who use that image. The fisherman image is relevant to many people at a certain moment in their development.
He will bring his message of connecting, between external visible reality and the deep treasures hidden in the sea of the unconscious, that are now accessible for those that have the patience to fish, and the courage to wait patiently until a fish bites our line.
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