Electronic Theses and Dissertations

Date

2023

Document Type

Thesis

Degree Name

Master of Fine Arts

Department

Art

Committee Chair

Coe Lapossay

Committee Member

Hamlett Dobbins

Committee Member

Richard Lou

Committee Member

Dr. Lisa M Williamson

Abstract

The Body is a Reliquary employs sculpture, painting and ceramic to visually demonstrate how the body serves as a container for the psychic products created, stored and transformed over a lifetime. The work uses religious tropes and language to highlight the sacred nature of the psyche and the process by which trauma is alchemized into joy. The research is grounded in the theories developed by depth psychologist Carl Jung and the many post-Jungian analysts who have expanded on his original idea which is that the psyche speaks to us through symbol, story and myth. Materially, the sculpture, painting and ceramic pieces in The Body is a Reliquary use Jung's devices of symbol, story and myth to demonstrate how the psyche might appear if it were a visible entity. The conclusion of the work points to the synchronicities that occur when psyche collides with matter and negative experience is found to be redemptive.

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Data is provided by the student.

Library Comment

Dissertation or thesis originally submitted to ProQuest

Notes

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