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

magic formulas, recall rhytmic work songs and ritual
songs, a very important element of the so-called basic
traditional popular music.
Such material witnesses the passage from the word to
singing, which is fundamental in popular communication
and is able to sublimate and turn in instinctual energies
into socially accepted expressions and behaviours in
acreative way.
This is what actually happens in music therapy.
The improvisation, the variation, the repetition and the
creativity peculiar to popular music allow a free use of
the sound material, a part from a specific
musical competence.
REPETITION AND VARIATION
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(S.4) The creative repetition and variation are two
essential aspects for man. One example could be the
behaviour chosen by the child during his anal phase
and his Oedipus period. He often tries to control his
anguish through rituals and repetitive behaviours linked
to particular moments of the day, just like the rites which
are linked to time and periods for primitive populations.
These processes are based on archaic psycological
mechanisms, such as, isolation, control; retroactive
magic annulment.
In psychopathology the obsessive behaviours seem to
be the only means to assure the persistence of the
object and the sense of individuality. Conversely, the
variaton represents a disillusion about the constancy of
the object.
During this "creative" phases the client substitutes the
primitive illusion of fusion with an intermediary area, the