Pictorial Space throughout Art History: Cézanne and ... - ARAS
Pictorial Space throughout Art History: Cézanne and ... - ARAS
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<strong>ARAS</strong> Connections Issue 2, 2012<br />
not creative. He said that each poem was like the grail question which, when<br />
asked, broke the evil spell of his “you-are-not-creative” complex. Without this<br />
creative expression he had always felt frustrated <strong>and</strong> off-center. He had to suffer<br />
his rage at his lost years of creativity.<br />
Creativity is a form of play. As he learned to play in poetry Bjorn became<br />
more playful with his friends, joking <strong>and</strong> making them laugh. In painting the<br />
problem of pictorial space gives unlimited scope for creative play (see Creating<br />
pictorial space; The play of movement).<br />
Individuation is passionate |65|. Bjorn learned to relate more passionately<br />
to his analyst <strong>and</strong> to his friends. Fry described how <strong>Cézanne</strong>'s paintings integrate<br />
passion within a formal structure (see Dionysus <strong>and</strong> Apollo).<br />
Individuation leads to a more conscious integration of psyche <strong>and</strong> soma<br />
|66|. A person is less likely to somatize, less likely to express psychological<br />
problems as arthritis or high blood pressure or ulcers. He or she is more able to<br />
take pleasure in sex <strong>and</strong> exercise without using these as a substitute for<br />
psychological life. As a child, Bjorn (the poet) had denied his anger, fear <strong>and</strong><br />
longing, stored them in his body, then split off his body from his conscious sense<br />
of self. In adult life his body expressed these feelings as ulcers <strong>and</strong> back pain.<br />
These symptoms also expressed his split-off creativity. As he became more<br />
conscious of his feelings Bjorn began to exercise more vigorously <strong>and</strong> to write.<br />
The subjective experience of being “in the body”, cannot be conveyed in words. I<br />
sense it when I watch a deer running in the wild. In painting, pictorial space<br />
(“psyche”) is integrated within the physical reality of the flat canvas (“soma”).<br />
(See Embodiment)<br />
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