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Bonde, Lars Ole: Analogy And Metapher In Music Therapy Theory ...
SYMBOL: Dualism between object and symbol: no direct correspondence. - A
third cognitive aspect is needed to understand the link. (Need for
interpretation).
(*Comment, LOB: This is in my opinion a definition of metaphor)
DIRECT EXPRESSION (Aigen) - purely musical dialogue. ('Intrinsic
interpretations')
(*Comment, LOB: the question is, whether music (in MT) ALWAYS has a
psychological meaning. I don't see, why this should be the case. But I think,
that when we meet Direct Expression it is when MT is more like music
teaching or aesthetic communication pure.)
METAPHOR: Almost like symbol: A third aspect opens interpretation. "During
improvisation it is the imagination of the metaphor which guides the client,
not the musical proces" (*comment, LOB see below)
*According to Pochat (1983) Smeijsters’ understanding of symbol/metaphor
places him on the Aristotelean/rationalistic line (in psychology represented
by the Freud-line), while I am on the neo-Platonean/idelistic line (in
psychology represented by the Jung-line). It may be necessary to go through
some of the most important symbol theories in art history and aesthetic
theory to make the lines clear.
NOTES
{1} My main assumption is that music is an unfolding of a non-verbal
narrative in an auditive timespace, and that this unfolding at a deep -
emotional and bodily - level - stimulates the “outcropping” of images and
metaphors via the permanent experience of tension and release in the
musical dynamics.
{2} The GIM literature presents many examples of ‘Heroes/Heroines’
Journies’ and archetypal narrative structures - even across cultural borders.
See Clark (1991), Hanks (1992), Wesley (1998), McIvor (1998)
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