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Category: Psychology and Creativity

Contemporary Visionary Culture & Psychedelic Art

Posted on April 8, 2022April 8, 2022 by lisalorraineh

The term psychedelics is used to describe psychoactive substances that distort mood and perception by affecting numerous cognitive processes. Generally, they are non-addictive and are considered physiologically safe. The term was coined in 1957 by the psychiatrist Humphrey Osmond and has been a common colloquialism for more than sixty years. However, it was and remained… Continue reading

Hans Prinzhorn’s Research on the Characteristics of Configuration

Posted on October 23, 2020September 23, 2021 by lisalorraineh

This article discusses a ‘scale’ implied in Hans Prinzhorn’s pioneering text ‘Artistry of the Mentally Ill,’ on the characteristics of pictorial configuration. These characteristics arise from an artist’s inner psychic world instead of the customs and objects in external reality. This research aims to understand the qualities that inspired the forerunners of surrealism and art… Continue reading

Artistry of the Mentally Ill: Psychiatry and Creativity in the Early 20th Century

Posted on October 23, 2020September 23, 2021 by lisalorraineh

This article introduces the psychiatrists from the late 19th century and the early 20th century who played a crucial role in shifting the perspective that a patient’s art was only significant as a diagnostic tool to an eventual appreciation of artistic achievement and merit. This video emphasizes Hans Prinzhorn’s text Artistry of the Mentally Ill… Continue reading

Active Imagination and the Play Instinct

Posted on July 8, 2020September 23, 2021 by lisalorraineh

According to Jung, the best way to access unconscious material is by engaging in a process called active imagination. In this article I will discussing active imagination and the ‘play’ instinct and how an individual can engage in this practice.  Jung’s interest in the process of active imagination began in 1913 when he began the… Continue reading

The Visionary Artist and the Transcendent Function

Posted on July 3, 2020September 23, 2021 by lisalorraineh

In this article I will be discussing Jung’s conceptualization of the transcendent function and how it relates to the creative process. In this article I use the following sources: Jung’s essay The Transcendent Function (1916), the psychologist, Jeffrey Miller’s text The Transcendent Function: Jung’s Model of Psychological Growth (2004), and the Jungian Analyst, Robert Mathews… Continue reading

The Visionary and Psychological Mode of Creativity

Posted on June 29, 2020September 23, 2021 by lisalorraineh

Word count: approx 1,200 In the essay ‘On the Relation of Analytical Psychology to Poetry’ (1930) Jung describes two modes of creativity. The psychological mode where the artist derives their inspiration from the sphere of conscious experience and the visionary mode which depicts unknown aspects of the unconscious in the form of symbolic and archetypal… Continue reading

  • Contemporary Visionary Culture & Psychedelic Art
  • Interview with Irish Artist, Fiona Gillespie
  • An Interview with Irish Artist Alan Doyle (& My Thoughts on Outsider Art)
  • Ernst Fuchs and Fantastic Realism
  • The Elaborate Visual Fantasies by Lisette Knutsen

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