The goal as process

Music and the search for the Self

Bibliographic Data

ID8984664
AuthorsPatricia Skar (0009-0008-3114-1048, corresponding author)
Year2002
Volume47
Issue4
Pages629-638
Publication date2002-10-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueJournal of Analytical Psychology (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0021-8774 • E-ISSN: 1465-5922
PublisherWiley (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1111/1465-5922.00351
PMID12416297
OpenAlexW2112193329
LanguageEN
Citations received6

This paper explores and compares the processes of music and analysis from the author's experience as a musician, piano teacher and analyst. It explains how the use of music improvisation in analysis (with simple percussion instruments) can powerfully enhance the dialogue between the unconscious and conscious psyche, as well as deepen the relationship between analyst and analysand. This is connected theoretically to Jung's active imagination and Winnicott's concept of play within the analytic encounter. Finally, the question is raised whether analytic trainings could do more to expose trainees to the possibility of using music within the analytic encounter. This touches on the more basic and controversial issue (which often separates analytical psychology and psychoanalysis) of whether expressive therapy should be used in analysis at all

Analytical psychology · Art · Art history · Cognitive psychology · Cognitive science · Epistemology · Harmony (Music · Improvisation · Music therapy · Musical · Piano · Process (computing · Psyche · Psychoanalysis · Psychotherapist · Unconscious mind · Visual arts · Child Therapy and Development · Computer Science · Counseling, Therapy, and Family Dynamics · Philosophy · Psychology · Psychotherapy Techniques and Applications

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