Jung
at heart
NO FEAR’s conceptual framework and methodology for Experiential Arts and Learning (EA&L) applies psychologist Carl Jung’s theories of the individuation process, to arts and arts education systems as they’ve developed in westernized societies to date.
NO FEAR relates Jung’s “dual personalities” theory to what we call the “Science” and “Soul” of human artmaking.
“Personality No. 1” being synonymous with the “Science” of artmaking, exists in the conscious mind and is directed by intellectual pursuits of artistic concepts, knowledge, technical methods of production and presentation, and much more.
“Personality No. 2” being synonymous with the “Soul” of artmaking, exists in the unconscious mind and instinctively directs participants’ intrinsic meanings and purposes for experiencing art.
Finally, we relate Jung’s concept of the fully individuated “Self” to the emanant “Spirit” of artmaking, being the ancient and universal force that manifests when “Science” and “Soul” become integrated and balanced.
At the heart of his life’s work, Jung believed individuation to be a process of psychic renewal that can restore balance between conscious and unconscious forces of the mind.
Applied to westernized arts and arts education systems, NO FEAR believes individuation can serve to dissolve illusive divisions which increasingly contribute to fragmenting art, artists, and audiences from one another.