The relevance of Bachelard's dynamic imagination for movement art psychotherapy. American Psychological Association Annual Convention (1990, Boston, Massachusetts)

Journal/Book: Arts in Psychotherapy. 1992; 19: 187-191.

Abstract: Discusses G. Bachelard's (1960) concepts of reverie or dynamic consciousness, the active process of creating images in the state between waking consciousness and sleep, and its relevance for a psychotherapy based on the arts. Images are not mere representations of reality, nor is the imagining consciousness passive; rather, imagination is an active process. Not only does the imagination describe and transform experience, it also unifies it, discovering a relation among the parts of an experience that form a pattern characterized by aesthetic necessity. Such patterns are not apprehended by the rational intellect, but by feelings. Bachelard called this mode of knowing "valorization." A description of a movement therapy session illustrates the use of dynamic imagination to move from inarticulate felt-sense to formed image.

Note: process of image creation in dynamic consciousness state in movement art psychotherapy; patients

Keyword(s): Imagery ; art therapy; motor processes; consciousness states; adulthood

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