23.7. 1993 Vitoria-Gasteiz / Spain - World Federation of Music Therapy

T H E P H E N O M E N O L O G I C A L R E C O V E R Y O F
M U S I C A N D O N T O P S Y C H O L O G I C A L M U S I C
T H E R A P Y
ARCO ARIANO
In an ontopsychological perspective the utilization
of music as therapy presuppones the capacity to recontact
and recover in operational terms the original
dimension of music which, even if unconscious, has
always lived in every man. Therefore ontopsychological
music therapy starts by putting aside every
preconstituted musical element and arrives at an
apprehension of music as it originally gives itself as
being, before being bridled by categories. We can thus
say, proposing an interpretative approach, that it starts
from phenomenology of music, from its
phenomenological recovery. Hinting at "Husserlian"
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phenomenology it is necessary to keep in mind that the
return to phenomena, to the original donation that it
intends to accomplish, is subordinate to the putting into
operation of the phenomenological epoché, in the
sense that only after accomplishing a process of
"reduction", of "purification" of subjectivity the
"phenomenon" can emerge in its authentic essential
data. "He who wishes to affirm himself phe
nomenologically - writes Husserl - must first learn to
see, must practise" 29 , that is, what is requested is the
initial effort to take himself out of his own habits, to leave
the obviousness of what is given, the occultation of the
preconstituted, to be able thus to recover in the
experience lived the intuitive immediacy of life in its
original data. Thanks to the epoché the world is taken
back to the life of the consciousness, because it enables
29 E. Husserl, Die Krisis der europaischen Wissen- schaften und die
transzendentale Phanomenologie; trad. it., Milano 1983, p.268.