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KMID : 1148220150110040045
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Journal of Arts Psychotherapy
2015 Volume.11 No. 4 p.45 ~ p.65
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A Study on Therapeutic Implication of Aesthetic Experience from The Perspective of Evolutionary Psychology
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Kang Kyoung-Sun
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Abstract
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How the role and value of arts in evolutionary process as a product of adaptation should be realized in contemporary arts psychotherapy? In human history arts played the important roles for adaptive life as it had biological, psychological and spiritual benefits for human beings' survival. Especially therapeutic effects of arts performed in ritual are realized in contemporary arts psychotherapy because essentially in both cases emotion that evolutionary had a strong tendency to act is transformed into artistic activities and it leads to aesthetic experience. Aesthetic experience in current psychology is analysed into two different dimensions. One is Freud's type of catharsis. The other is Mazlow's type of peak experience through self-actualization. These different qualities of aesthetic experience should be realized in arts psychotherapy process by provoking human beings' artistic instinct which is the desire of 'making special'. The first is ‘making special’ of self-expression. This is the process of expressing repressed and isolated emotional pieces through artistic exploration. When genuine and special self expression is made, we reach emotional catharsis. The second is 'making special value of self' by being apprised by others and experiencing self actualization. When this higher desire is fulfilled through will and effort to express aesthetically, we experience special value of ourselves. The implication of aesthetic experience in arts psychotherapy is to change more adaptive functioning human beings through 'making special expression' and 'making special value of artistic activity' as did the original function of arts.
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KEYWORD
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Aesthetic Experience, Arts Psychotherapy, Making Special
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