Joseph Campbell tells us that if you look closely at all cultures you find the story of “The Hero's Journey”, the vehicle for my thesis project, a devised theatre piece titled A Thousand Faces: Everyday Heroes. Though the subject of A Thousand Faces is the exploration of “The Hero's Journey” the foundation of the work is the application of the pedagogical principles of Ritual Poetic Drama Within the African Continuum (RPDWAC) as outlined in the practices of my mentor Dr. Tawnya Pettiford-Wates, Assistant Professor of Performance at Virginia Commonwealth University Theatre (VCU). I apply RPDWAC pedagogical principles to Archetypes for the Actor/Singer (AFAS), a training methodology developed by Frankie Armstrong and another of my mentors, Professor of Voice and Speech and Head of Performance at VCU Theatre, Janet B. Rodgers. This paper outlines the process and performance of a class that combined these methodologies.

This thesis addresses the personality questionnaire Golden Profiler of Personality (GPOP). Its main objective is to verify a construct validity of GPOP. In the theoretical part, the required psychometric characteristics of psychodiagnostic tools are discussed. It also deals with the theoretical background of the GPOP - Jung's theory of psychological types and the Five Factor Model. The questionnaire GPOP is also compared with other psychodiagnostic tools with similar theoretical background and possibilities of its applications are discussed. The empirical part examines relationship between the scores of Golden Profiler of Personality and NEO inventory NEO-PI-R to determine the construct validity of GPOP. The research was conducted on the sample of university students. Results confirm the expected relationship and can be considered as the evidence of construct validity. The comparison with the norm sample showed that the sample of this research differs from the norm sample. Although the generalizability of results to the population is limited, this thesis offers the first validation study of Czech version of GPOP. Keywords: GPOP, psychodiagnostics, Jung typology, validity, NEO-PI-R

Jan Havel Sigmund Freud and Karl Marx - theit vision of human and their legacy Abstrakt: This paper is about how Marx and Freud see a human being. Besides introduction, methodology and cunclusion there are three main parts. These are the chapters "Genesis of Marx's and Freud's vision of human", Evolution of marxism and psychoanalysis" and "Comparison of the vision of human". "Genesis of Marx's and Freud's vision of human" speaks about predecessors of both authors and about things that had an impact on their work. Chapter "Genesis of Marx's and Freud's vision of human" shows how were both ideas changing during history. In the chapter "Comparison of the vision of human" are examined ideas and thoughts of other authors and connections between their work and the work of Marx and Freud are shown. This paper also includes attachements that include short biographies of chosen authors and also a list of qutations from primary sources of literature.

Le dialogue entre la pratique et la théorie est la base de cette étude. Le défi est la réflexion à trois niveaux: la création de numéros et de spectacles par le jeu du clown; la recherche de sa théorie; et les expérimentations pédagogiques. L'interrogation sur le clown a commencé au Brésil et s'est déroulée dans quatre pays européens à travers des spectacles, des résidences artistiques, des ateliers et des rencontres avec des artistes à partir de la Cia da Bobagem. Le clown est une figure populaire et banale à la fois, mais il y a des traces primitives de son jeu. Cette étude met l'accent sur cet art sous de nombreux aspects: ses principes, son histoire, ses artistes, sa pratique interculturelle, sa liberté, sa poésie, son incompréhension et ses métamorphoses au fil du temps. C'est une invitation à voyager ensemble dans un monde paradoxalement très proche mais toujours mystérieux. La première partie aborde le parcours artistique du chercheur influencé par la recherche e sa curiosité théorique. Ce sont 15 ans de vie clownesque vécu au Brésil et intensifié en Europe avec la création de quatre spectacles et la réalisation de plusieurs cours de clowns à Bruxelles. La rentrée au Brésil est étudiée à partir des projets subventionés. La deuxième partie montre un esquisse théorique sur le clown du XVIe jusqu’aujourd’hui : dès les moralités aux clowns actuels. L’etymologie du mot clown ouvre ce chapitre qui fait une possible relation du trickster et du clown. La troisième partie fait une réflexion sur le jeu comme un outil d’apprentissage du clown. Il y a la tentative de met en lumière les principes du jeu clownesque et les élements pédagogiques appliqué dans la Cia da Bobagem. Pour conclure, la thèse essaye de montrer que la pratique du clown permet une intégration professionnelle et que la théorie peut amplifier la conception du clown à travers la psychologie, l’anthropologie et l’histoire. La transmission du jeu clownesque par la pédagogie du plaisir peut être l’autre façon de jouer et de transmettre le clown au-delà de la souffrance. / The dialogue between practice and theory is the basis of this study. The challenge is the reflection in three levels: the creation of numbers and shows by the play of clown; the investigation of clown theory; and the pedagogy experimentations. The interrogation about clown began in Brazil and came to four European countries through performances, artistic residences, workshops and meetings with artists by Cia da Bobagem group. The clown is a popular and a banal figure at the same time, but there are primitive traces of his play. This work explores this art by many aspects: his principles, his history, his artists, his intercultural practice, his freedom, his poetry, his incomprehension, and his metamorphoses over time. It is an invitation to travel together in a world paradoxically very near, but still mysterious. The first part shows the artistc journey of the researcher influenced by the research and theoretical curiosity. These are fifteen years of clown lived in Brazil and intensified in Europe with the creation of four shows and the realization of several clown classes in Brussels. The return to Brazil is studied from funded projects. The second part opens on the etymology of the word clown opens this chapter which makes a possible relation of the trickster and the clown, than indicates a theoretical sketch about the clown from the sixteen century to the present day: from morality to actual clowns. The third part is about the game as a learning tool of the clown. There is the attempt to highlight the principles of the clown game and the pedagogical elements applied in Cia da Bobagem. The thesis shows that the practice of clowning allows a professional integration, that the theory amplifies the conception of clown through psychology, anthropology and history, and that the transmission of the clown game by the pedagogy of pleasure can be the other way to play and transmit the clown beyond suffering.

A presente dissertação fundamenta-se na psicologia analítica, criada pelo psiquiatra e psicanalista suíço Carl Gustav Jung. Partindo deste referencial e tomando como base os pilares da pesquisa qualitativa foi realizado um grupo vivencial de sonhos com estudantes ingressantes no 1º ano de graduação em Psicologia de uma universidade pública, com o objetivo de compreender como os estudantes estão vivenciando esse momento específico. Por meio do estudo do movimento grupal nos encontros, de uma análise do material obtido e da elaboração simbólica a respeito do desenvolvimento do grupo e dos encontros foi possível identificar e observar símbolos que apontam para um período de mudanças e enfrentamento de angústias e medos, encontrando sustentação e significação no grupo. O grupo vivencial com a utilização de recursos expressivos artísticos revelou-se também como meio de autoconhecimento, possibilitando o exercício da alteridade e seu manejo, indicando seu uso durante a formação do psicólogo em diversos momentos / The present dissertation is based on analytical psychology, created by the Swiss psychiatrist and psychoanalyst Carl Gustav Jung. Starting from this framework and based on the pillars of qualitative research, an experiential dream group was realized with incoming students in the first year of graduation in Psychology from a public university, in order to understand how the students are experiencing this moment. Through the study of the group movement in the meetings, an analysis of the material obtained and the symbolic elaboration of the same and of the encounters, it was possible to identify and observe symbols that refer to a process of change and confrontation of fears that found support in the group. The experiential group with expressives artistcs resources revealed itself also as a tool for self-knowledge, allowing the exercise of alterity and its management, its use being indicated for the training of psychologists, in several moments

O presente trabalho tem como questão o tipo de ajuda que o psicólogo pode oferecer, balizado na busca de compreensão do sentido desta prática profissional. Discute, a partir das abordagens fenomenológica e junguiana, a realidade do homem moderno e a importância de um olhar que o inclua enquanto sujeito participativo de seu processo de aprendizagem. Investiga a experiência de clientes, no Serviço de Plantão Psicológico do IPUSP, diante de uma sessão narrativa de um conto tradicional e/ou uma sessão de atendimento psicológico em Plantão Psicológico. Tomando a experiência como matéria prima da intervenção clínica e pesquisa psicológicas, apresenta-a por duas vertentes: busca compreender o trajeto dos clientes, a partir de depoimentos sobre o vivido nos eventos propostos; e o trajeto da pesquisadora, a partir do processo de elaboração da análise deste material. A pesquisadora valeu-se de recursos gráficos enquanto metodologia de análise para a compreensão da experiência dos depoentes. Tal iniciativa, bem como a narração de histórias no contexto do trabalho psicológico, promoveu reflexões sobre a possibilidade de explorar a experiência, através de recursos diversos, a fim de facilitar a sua elaboração. Neste sentido, este trabalho pode abrir horizontes para ações singulares e criativas, através da experiência, propondo um tipo de aprendizagem e prática que seja significativa. Neste fluxo, permite pensar algumas abrangências da clínica, formação e pesquisa em psicologia / The present study inquires about the kind of support that psychologists can offer by searching comprehension of this professional practice meaning. The paper discusses, within the perspective of phenomenology and junguian approaches, the modern human being reality and the importance of a perspective that includes him as a participative subject in his own learning process. It reflects the meaning of the psychologist\'s role, considering the possibility of using cultural and artistic resources. It investigates the experience with traditional tales narrative and/or a psychological appointment, by clients that seek psychological assistance at the Psychological Walk-in Service of the Psychology Institute of the University of Sao Paulo. Starting from the comprehension that experience is the raw material for psychological clinic intervention and research, it is presented in two directions: the clients and the searcher\'s pathways. It is based on the clients\' testimony about what they experienced in the proposed events and in the searcher\'s investigative process. The searcher utilizes graphic resources in her methodology for analysis and comprehension of the deponents\' experience. Such initiative, as well as the story telling used in the psychological context, leaded to reflections upon the possibility of dealing with different resources, as a mean to facilitate the experience elaboration. It achieves the possibility of singular and creative actions, through experience, proposing a significative learning and practice. In this flowing, it offers the possibility of thinking some contains towards clinics, formation and research in the psychological field

El presente trabajo explora el desarrollo del concepto freudiano “proyección” en el marco de la mutua colaboración entre Sigmund Freud y Carl Jung. La investigación se inscribe en la línea conceptual histórica y de determinantes inconscientes en el desarrollo de conceptos. En ella, se pretende dar cuenta de diferencias teóricas y metodológicas entre Freud y Jung desde sus inicios que puedan ayudar a dar sentido a la colaboración mutua en el desarrollo del concepto proyección. Para este fin, se revisó críticamente la correspondencia entre ambos, así como las obras de cada uno en las que se pueda evidenciar el trabajo con el concepto / The following work explores the development of the freudian concept “projection” in the framework of the mutual collaboration between Sigmund Freud and Carl Jung. This research is framed in the line of historical-conceptual research and unconscious determinants in the concept’s development. We intend to explain, the theoretical and methodological differences between Freud and Jung from the beginning that make sense on the mutual collaboration in the development of that concept. With this purpose, we reviewed critically the correspondence between both authors, as well as each one’s works referred to the concept / Tesis

The aim of this doctoral thesis is to show how the Jungian process of individuation — the psychological development of a unique individual — is depicted in the fairy tales of the twentieth-century Spanish writer, Carmen Martín Gaite. The three shorter tales — El castillo de las tres murallas, El pastel del diablo and Caperucita en Manhattan — are explored here along with the novel, La reina de las nieves. Individuation, as well as being the means by which an individual person develops, also implies a new way of relating between human beings. Jung described the outcome of individuation as ‘objective cognition’ which, this thesis argues, is equivalent to love and conscious relatedness between persons. Dreams play a crucial role in the individuation process — as they do in the work of Martín Gaite — guiding the dreamer on his/her journey. Dreams facilitate encounters with aspects of the personal and collective unconscious, which appear in symbolic form. The protagonist of the story by Martín Gaite which is closest to a traditional fairy tale (El castillo de las tres murallas) and the novel which takes a traditional tale as its reference point (La reina de las nieves) illustrate the importance of dreams in the development of the protagonists. At the heart of each of the other two tales — El pastel del diablo and Caperucita en Manhattan — is an imagined text which illustrates, in symbolic form, aspects of the individuation process. Connections have been made in Jungian thinking between individuation and the development of Christianity into a third age, the Age of the Holy Spirit, because of the major shift in consciousness (akin to the change which occurred 2000 years ago with the birth of Christ). Alongside the exploration of individuation in the fairy tales, this thesis also considers parallels with the Christian story and indications of its development or renewal.

A presente dissertação fundamenta-se na psicologia analítica, criada pelo psiquiatra e psicanalista suíço Carl Gustav Jung. Partindo deste referencial e tomando como base os pilares da pesquisa qualitativa foi realizado um grupo vivencial de sonhos com estudantes ingressantes no 1º ano de graduação em Psicologia de uma universidade pública, com o objetivo de compreender como os estudantes estão vivenciando esse momento específico. Por meio do estudo do movimento grupal nos encontros, de uma análise do material obtido e da elaboração simbólica a respeito do desenvolvimento do grupo e dos encontros foi possível identificar e observar símbolos que apontam para um período de mudanças e enfrentamento de angústias e medos, encontrando sustentação e significação no grupo. O grupo vivencial com a utilização de recursos expressivos artísticos revelou-se também como meio de autoconhecimento, possibilitando o exercício da alteridade e seu manejo, indicando seu uso durante a formação do psicólogo em diversos momentos / The present dissertation is based on analytical psychology, created by the Swiss psychiatrist and psychoanalyst Carl Gustav Jung. Starting from this framework and based on the pillars of qualitative research, an experiential dream group was realized with incoming students in the first year of graduation in Psychology from a public university, in order to understand how the students are experiencing this moment. Through the study of the group movement in the meetings, an analysis of the material obtained and the symbolic elaboration of the same and of the encounters, it was possible to identify and observe symbols that refer to a process of change and confrontation of fears that found support in the group. The experiential group with expressives artistcs resources revealed itself also as a tool for self-knowledge, allowing the exercise of alterity and its management, its use being indicated for the training of psychologists, in several moments

The artist discusses the work for his Masters of Fine Arts exhibition, Mind under Matter, held at the Tipton Gallery in downtown Johnson City, Tennessee. Exhibition dates are from March 27th through April 5th 2017. ‘Matter under Mind’ explores the balance of control and non-control within the art-making process. This technique creates an automatic dialogue resulting in abstraction guided by the subconscious. The title ‘Matter under Mind’ is a slight play on the phrase ‘mind over matter’ emphasizing how matter/material is manipulated by the mind through the making of artwork, and within the mind’s eye or imagination. The video installation featuring the work is accompanied by a soundscape to bring the viewer deeper into the creative process. The video symbolizes the idea of ‘solve et coagula’ or, dissolve and coagulate, destroy to recreate by revealing how the process of cleaning paint off of a surface creates artwork in itself.