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Sometimes we have to look outside to see ourselves… We name these multiple
beings we have inside and stress their colours in fantastic narratives. Myths, movies,
dreams… in the metaphor’s and metonymies’ grassland. Joseph Campbell identified
mythic features common to several cultures. The Western modern myths? We find them
in stories and characters from performing arts, fascinating millions of people. These so
largely hypnotizing narratives, that cross space and time, sign perhaps a touch in the
deep inner “cave” of human being. In Theatre, Michael Chekhov speaks about the
triplicity, polarity and transformation laws. In Psychology, Sigmund Freud tells us
about the triangular oedipal situation (here stressed in its internality, as a basic
psychological structure of human action, in which desire and obstacles oppose). Hegel
enounces the dialectical process as the motor of all transformation. This presentation
intends to explore some ideas that are shared by several fields of knowledge, although
enounced in different ways. In common, we find the centrality of a conflict between two
opposite forces, which starts in a zero point characterized by undifferentiation of a
particular dimension. Somehow, disequilibrium is triggered to a point of no return: a
story of antagonism begins, developing toward a resolution. Integration of the opposites
and transformation then occur, in order to regain an acceptable equilibrium. We assist to
a cycle that culminates on metaphorical death and resurrection of the individual, as in
the myths described by Campbell. A cycle that will repeat itself in its structure, in the
alternating points of tension and relaxation, conflict and integration, as new challenges
emerges. Just as the never-the-same river, the end of the cycle is always different from
the beginning, creating the rhythm of a spiral
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Psychoanalysis Performing arts Narratives Dialectic
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Citation
Spoken paper presented at: EUROPEAN CONGRESS OF PSYCHOLOGY, 9th, Granada, Spain, 3 - 8 July 2005
Publisher
European Federation of Psychologists’ Association (EFPA) e Colegio Oficial de Psicologos (COP)