The novel manuscript Blue Horses (published as Dust, by Random House Australia under its Woolshed Press Imprint, July 2009) focuses on a dusty corner of 1970’s Queensland in this evocative tale of family, shadows that hang over from childhood and beauty found in unexpected places. Its protagonist, Cecilia Maria, was named after saints and martyrs to give her something to live up to. “Over my dead body,” she vows. Her battles with a six-pack of brothers and the despised Kapernicke girls from the farm next door teach her an unforgettable lesson that echoes down through the years. Now she’s heading back to where it all began, with teenagers Jed and Jenna reluctantly in tow. She plans to dance on a grave and track down some ghosts. Instead she learns a new lesson at the gravesite of an old enemy. The exegesis examines Jung’s concept of the Shadow Archetype as a catalyst for individuation in writing for young adults. It discusses the need to re-vision Jung’s work within a feminist framework and contrasts it to Julia Kristeva’s work on the abject. Alyssa Brugman’s Walking Naked and Sonya Hartnett’s Sleeping Dogs are analysed in relation to these concepts and lead into my own creative reflections on, and justification for, use of the Shadow conceptual framework. In following my shadow and establishing a creative dialogue between my conscious intent and unconscious inspirations, I have discovered a writing self that is “other” to the professional writer persona of my past.

This project is an exploration, through art making processes, of a relationship between the interpretation of symbols and the interpretation of everyday life experiences, with a view to evolving a metaphorical visual language that might translate these experiences. Individuation is a process within Jungian psychology that relates the interpretation of symbols to the interpretation of life experiences and places their common meanings within a definitive framework of individual human development. The archetypal pattern that this framework outlines is the development of a healthy relationship between an individual’s consciousness and the unconscious. The word metaphor originates from Greek metapherein – “to carry over, transfer; meta` beyond, over + fe`rein to bring, bear. It is the transference of the relation between one set of objects to another set for the purpose of brief explanation… the statement “that man is a fox,” is a metaphor” (Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, 2008) Due to its particular relationship to time, space, memory and light photography has proven to be an ideal way to engage, record, and present this exploration. Our personal photographs operate as visual metaphors for our personal experience, we transfer the experience into the photograph, we consider the photograph is that moment in time, that place, that experience, rather than being like that experience. The interpretation of personal photographs is entirely individual and emotional. When photographs are placed into the public arena their emotional value changes, their interpretation, purpose, and authenticity can become questionable. In this project the experience and the photographs are placed within the context of individuation, which is a model that guides the interpretation of the photographs and include the individual and emotional values as a necessary part of that interpretation. In this project the symbols and visual metaphors interpreted in the photographs operate as a narrative of the personal experience of the archetypal journey of individuation.

This project is an exploration, through art making processes, of a relationship between the interpretation of symbols and the interpretation of everyday life experiences, with a view to evolving a metaphorical visual language that might translate these experiences. Individuation is a process within Jungian psychology that relates the interpretation of symbols to the interpretation of life experiences and places their common meanings within a definitive framework of individual human development. The archetypal pattern that this framework outlines is the development of a healthy relationship between an individual’s consciousness and the unconscious. The word metaphor originates from Greek metapherein – “to carry over, transfer; meta` beyond, over + fe`rein to bring, bear. It is the transference of the relation between one set of objects to another set for the purpose of brief explanation… the statement “that man is a fox,” is a metaphor” (Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, 2008) Due to its particular relationship to time, space, memory and light photography has proven to be an ideal way to engage, record, and present this exploration. Our personal photographs operate as visual metaphors for our personal experience, we transfer the experience into the photograph, we consider the photograph is that moment in time, that place, that experience, rather than being like that experience. The interpretation of personal photographs is entirely individual and emotional. When photographs are placed into the public arena their emotional value changes, their interpretation, purpose, and authenticity can become questionable. In this project the experience and the photographs are placed within the context of individuation, which is a model that guides the interpretation of the photographs and include the individual and emotional values as a necessary part of that interpretation. In this project the symbols and visual metaphors interpreted in the photographs operate as a narrative of the personal experience of the archetypal journey of individuation.

Zugl.: London, School of Oriental and African Studies, Diss.

Thesis (MPhil)--University of Stellenbosch, 2006. / On title page: M.Phil in Ancient Cultures. Bibliography. Also available via the Internet.

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Compreender criando – eis o percurso. Servindo-se da teoria dos arquétipos da psicologia analítica de Carl G. Jung e dos estudos do imaginário, a pesquisa pretende estabelecer relações entre os procedimentos de criação do ator e os conceitos de mitopoese, símbolo e arquétipo, a fim de encontrar possíveis vínculos entre o processo criativo e os aspectos que caracterizam a manifestação da imagem arquetípica do herói. As mitologias fundadas a partir desse arquétipo expressam a busca de uma relação criativa com a potência das imagens inconscientes, uma jornada de formação, um modelo processual. Esse trajeto se direciona à experiência da totalidade do ser, ao ato de integração do self denominado pela psicologia analítica junguiana como individuação. Conforme as concepções de Grotowski, o trabalho criativo, a partir da busca de uma técnica pessoal, envolve experiências semelhantes de autoconhecimento e de totalidade. Caberia entendê-lo como processo de individuação? Propondo-se a revisitar e reconstruir o itinerário de criação do espetáculo A mulher de Putifar para investigar sua articulação às questões levantadas pela pesquisa e visando problematizar o trabalho sobre si e a dramaturgia de ator, este estudo interroga a possibilidade de presentificar na imagem cênica o percurso do herói. Fazendo-se jornada mitopoética, o processo de criação encontra no relacionamento com as imagens um conhecimento ativo, no qual a emergência da consciência torna-se um “dramaturgir-se” para “ler-se”. / Understand through creating – behold the path. Making use of the archetypes theory of Carl G. Jung’s analytical psychology and the studies of the imaginary, the research intends to establish relations between the procedures for creation of the actor and the concepts of mitopoese, symbol and archetype, in order to find possible links between the creative process and the aspects that characterize the manifestation of the archetypal image of the hero. The mythologies founded from that archetype express the search of a creative relationship with the power of unconscious images, a formative journey, a procedural model. This path is directed to the experience of the totality of being, the act of integrating the self designated by jungian analytical psychology as individuation. According to Grotowski’s conceptions, the creation process involves similar experiences of self-knowledge and totality. Could it be understood as a process of individuation? Proposing to revisit and rebuild the creative journey of the theatrical performance A mulher de Putifar to investigate its relationship to issues raised by the survey and to problematize the work on oneself and the dramaturgy of actor, this study examines the possibility to make scenic image of the journey of the hero. Becoming mythopoetic journey, the creation process finds in the relationship with images an active knowledge, in which the emergence of consciousness becomes a dramaturgy on oneself with the intention of reading oneself.

Made available in DSpace on 2016-06-02T19:39:55Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 6734.pdf: 1320765 bytes, checksum: e8301fa78fad06ab036c2f3ff316f41e (MD5) Previous issue date: 2015-02-27 / That bibliographic theoretical-characterized survey has been as its beginning the following question: How is an individual constituted? By searching the solution for this question, we have mainly based on the thesis of Gilbert Simondon, a French philosopher, The Individuation under the Light of Notions about Shape and Information (1958), which along with the comprehension about his concepts, sought in natural sciences like inequality, meta stability and transduction. That permitted not only to understand the individual from his individuation process, but also to realize an occurring reality that antecedes it a reality that Simondon himself called pre individual. Moreover, since Simondon show us that the being is never to individuate himself, that pre-individual reality both coexists with the individual and will be his genesis. This point in Simondon s philosophy will make possible for us to answer our own questions. Would the individuation processes not be distinguishing processes, too? In case affirmative, would these singularization processes not be a deindividuation, too? In order to answer our own questions, we have performed, face to Simondon s proposal surveys about the philosophy of difference proposed by the French philosopher Gilles Deleuze and the psychoanalyst Felis Guattari, and by Deleuze s comments about Simondon s philosophy. We have permitted ourselves, therefore, to perform an approach to education, which led us, not only to propose a new manner of understanding education, but also rethinking its practices. For that, we have had to delimitate a theoretical field made up by so many other surveys and texts, which could approximate to what we have performed, that is, which worked out with Simondon, the philosophy of difference and education. / Esta pesquisa de caráter teórico bibliográfico teve como ponto de partida o seguinte questionamento: Como o indivíduo se constitui? Na busca de resolver esta questão, encontramo-nos em Gilbert Simondon, filósofo francês, mais especificamente com sua tese A Individuação à Luz das Noções de Forma e se Informação (1958), que juntamente com a compreensão de seus conceitos, os quais ele vai buscar nas ciências naturais como disparação, metaestabilidade, e transdução permitiu não apenas compreender o indivíduo a partir do seu processo de individuação, mas de perceber a existência de uma realidade que antecede não só o indivíduo, mas o próprio processo de individuação, uma realidade que o próprio Simondon chamou de pré-individual. E como o Simondon nos demonstra, que o ser nunca para de se individuar, essa realidade pré-individual além de coexistir com o indivíduo será também sua gênese. É esse ponto na filosofia de Simondon que nos possibilitará também responder as nossas próprias questões. Se os processos de individuações também não são processos de singularizações? E sendo que sim, esses processos de singularizações não seriam também uma desindividuação? Para responder as nossas próprias perguntas, realizamos, frente a proposta de Simondon, aportes da filosofia da diferença proposta pelo filosofo francês Gilles Deleuze e pelo psicanalista Felix Guattari e nos comentários que Deleuze faz a filosofia de Simondon. Permitindo-nos assim, realizar uma aproximação com a educação, o que nos levou a não só propor uma nova maneira de compreender a educação, mas também, de repensar as suas práticas. Para tal, foi preciso delimitar um campo teórico composto por tantas outras pesquisas e tantos outros textos que aproximassem com o que realizamos, isto é, que trabalhassem com o Simondon, com a filosofia da diferença e com a educação.

Made available in DSpace on 2014-12-17T14:35:57Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 CynaraCA.pdf: 551770 bytes, checksum: dbdace6386f42f88dd72aa020d18dab2 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2008-12-10 / Este estudo trata sobre as marcas da experi?ncia escolar no processo de individua??o do sujeito e tem como objetivo geral conhecer de que forma essas experi?ncias, a despeito das quest?es curriculares e pedag?gicas, influenciam esse processo. Buscou-se interpretar as experi?ncias refor?adas durante a escolariza??o e as trajet?rias de enfrentamento das diversas situa??es vividas na escola. Tentou-se, tamb?m, compreender o sentido dos acontecimentos escolares cr?ticos e igualmente como o meio familiar pode influenciar nas escolhas e forma??o dos sujeitos atrav?s do investimento pedag?gico. Ademais, refletiu-se sobre os motivos que levaram alguns a permanecerem no ambiente escolar seja como estudante ou mais tarde, do lado de l?, como professor. Para tanto, foi realizada uma pesquisa qualitativa de inspira??o fenomenol?gica utilizando-se de entrevistas narrativas com quatro sujeitos, a partir das quais se identificou as principais caracter?sticas, estrutura, condi??es de origem, o contexto social, as estrat?gias escolares, as formas como foram manejadas e suas conseq??ncias. A an?lise dos relatos deixou claro dois eixos fundamentais da experi?ncia escolar que se destacam na constitui??o dos sujeitos: de um lado a din?mica do ambiente escolar vivido deixou marcas indel?veis na mem?ria que foram determinantes para as escolhas pessoais; por outro lado, a refer?ncia familiar, atrav?s das suas v?rias formas de investimento pedag?gico, teve uma influ?ncia decisiva. As marcas combinadas da escola e da fam?lia deixaram um legado importante para forma??o dos sujeitos e para as escolhas que fizeram durante as suas vidas, especialmente no direcionamento da suas carreiras profissionais. Invariavelmente, percebeu-se na investiga??o, que muito do aluno que se foi persiste no adulto e profissional de hoje. Assim, o Eu escolar ? parte do Eu profissional que existe em cada um. O cidad?o, a pessoa e o profissional s?o derivados dos processos de socializa??o e individua??o, os quais em grande parte se definem durante a vida escolar. E ? com o uso desse "capital escolar" , adquirido nos tempos de escola, que temos condi??es de desenvolver os muitos pap?is sociais nos dias atuais.

Made available in DSpace on 2014-12-17T14:36:09Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 CynaraCA.pdf: 765049 bytes, checksum: a131181b6dcd00e4c259d026c66852cf (MD5) Previous issue date: 2008-10-14 / Coordena??o de Aperfei?oamento de Pessoal de N?vel Superior / This study it treats on the marks of the school experience in the individuation process of the subject and has as general aim to know of that it forms these experiences, the spite of the curricular and pedagogical questions, influences this process. It searched to interpret the experiences strengthened during the school education and the trajectories of confrontation of the diverse situations lived in the school. It was tried,also,to understand the direction of the critical school events and equally as the familiar way can influence in the choices and formation of the citizens through the pedagogical investment. Furthermore, it was reflected on the reasons that had taken some to remain in the school environment are as student or, later, of the side of there ,as teacher. For in such a way, it realized a qualitative research with a phenomenological inspiration using narratives interviews carried with four subjects, from which if it identified the main characteristics, structure, conditions of origin, the social context, the school strategies, the forms as they had been managed and its consequences. The analysis of the stories clearly left two basic axles about the school experience that if detach in the constitution of the subjects: in a hand, the dynamics of the lived school environment left undeleted marks in the memory that had been determinative for the personal choices; on the other hand,the familiar reference, through its different forms of pedagogical investment,had a decisive influence. The agreed marks of the school and the family had left an important legacy for formation of the subjects and the choices that had made during their lives, especially in the aiming of its professional careers. Invariably, it was perceived in the inquiry, that much of the pupil who if was persists in the adult and professional of today. Thus, the school I it s part of professional I that it exists in each one. The citizen, the person and the professional are derived from the processes of socialization and individuation, which to a large extent are defined during the school life. And it s with the use of this school capital , acquired in the school times, that we have conditions to develop the many social roles in the current days / Este estudo trata sobre as marcas da experi?ncia escolar no processo de individua??o do sujeito e tem como objetivo geral conhecer de que forma essas experi?ncias, a despeito das quest?es curriculares e pedag?gicas, influenciam esse processo. Buscou-se interpretar as experi?ncias refor?adas durante a escolariza??o e as trajet?rias de enfrentamento das diversas situa??es vividas na escola. Tentou-se, tamb?m, compreender o sentido dos acontecimentos escolares cr?ticos e igualmente como o meio familiar pode influenciar nas escolhas e forma??o dos sujeitos atrav?s do investimento pedag?gico. Ademais, refletiu-se sobre os motivos que levaram alguns a permanecerem no ambiente escolar seja como estudante ou, mais tarde, do lado de l? , como professor. Para tanto, foi realizada uma pesquisa qualitativa de inspira??o enomenol?gica utilizando-se de entrevistas narrativas com quatro sujeitos, a partir das quais se identificou as principais caracter?sticas, estrutura, condi??es de origem, o contexto social, as estrat?gias escolares, as formas como foram manejadas e suas conseq??ncias. A an?lise dos relatos deixou claro dois eixos fundamentais da experi?ncia escolar que se destacam na constitui??o dos sujeitos: de um lado a din?mica do ambiente escolar vivido deixou marcas indel?veis na mem?ria que foram determinantes para as escolhas pessoais; por outro lado, a refer?ncia familiar, atrav?s das suas v?rias formas de investimento pedag?gico, teve uma influ?ncia decisiva. As marcas combinadas da escola e da fam?lia deixaram um legado importante para forma??o dos sujeitos e para as escolhas que fizeram durante as suas vidas, especialmente no direcionamento da suas carreiras profissionais. Invariavelmente, percebeu-se na investiga??o, que muito do aluno que se foi persiste no adulto e profissional de hoje. Assim, o Eu escolar ? parte do Eu profissional que existe em cada um. O cidad?o, a pessoa e o profissional s?o derivados dos processos de socializa??o e individua??o, os quais em grande parte se definem durante a vida escolar. E ? com o uso desse capital escolar , adquirido nos tempos de escola, que temos condi??es de desenvolver os muitos pap?is sociais nos dias atuais