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Hi Semra,
I do think that creative activities are an unconscious from of communication. Winborn (2019)
interprets art and technique from a Jungian perspective. Dreams are insubstantial and often
difficult to hold on to or remember for long. Art seems to me to be a more substantial expression
of inner thoughts, images, experiences, fantasies, and dreams. I have heard an artist or author say
they got the idea for a work in a dream, or it just came to them. I have been compelled to create
from because of dreams. Even the medium an artist chooses (prose, poetry, oil paints, clay,
marble) is worth analyzing and asking why did they choose this medium? What does this choice
tell us about this client (Winborn, 2019)?
I am struck by this quote by Jung (1965): “Man’s task is . . . to become conscious of the contents
that press upward from the unconscious. . . As far as we can discern the sole purpose of human
existence is to kindle a light in the darkness of mere being”.
Art, to me, seems to be those contents that press upward from unconscious to conscious; light
that is kindled from the darkness of being. As such, I see art therapy as having great value in
therapeutic sessions, as well as analysis of that art from a Jungian perspective.
References
Jung, C. G. (1965). Memories, dreams, reflections. New York: Vintage.
Winborn, M. (2019). Interpretation in Jungian analysis: Art and technique. Routledge, Taylor &
Francis.

From Jungian’s perspective, the client's disclosure would be the confession when working with
clients. The second step, elucidation, would be examining the transference and countertransference.
Stage three, social education, is to see the client's insight and learnings and stage four,
transformation, allows clients to explore and apply their imagination. In addition, I may use the
client's dreams, fantasies or a piece of art created by the client as a springboard for further analysis
(Safran et al., 2019). When individuals engage in creative activities, such as drawing, could it be the
body's unconscious way of communicating?