Art as a therapy and a communication method - the dialogical self

• Autor(a) principal: Jardim, Maria Antónia
• Data de Publicação: 2009
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: eng
• Título da fonte: Repositório Científico de Acesso Aberto de Portugal (Repositórios Cientìficos)
• Texto Completo: http://hdl.handle.net/10284/2900
• topic: Human; Symbol; Art; Psychology; Hermeneutics; Therapy; Communication; Words; Dialogue; Narratives

It will be our concern to link the concept of hermeneutics to the dialogic process of self-discovery. The role art plays in people`s life span. We shall focus on the connection between two discourses: the discourse of the text, the work of art, and the discourse of interpretation and the kind of worlds they disclose. The hermeneutical idea of subjectivity as a dialectic between the self and mediated social meanings will be pointed out as well as an ethic of the word that language opens up.We shall regard the self-understanding of man, his self-development, dependent on this dimension of language as a disclosure of possibility. It is by an understanding of the worlds, opened by language and its symbols that we may arrive at a better understanding of ourselves as human beings. Art is the most important human expression; Hermeneutics is an instrument of self-interpretation and self-evaluation that crosses the dialogical process; which means it is an instrument to psychology as a subjective science.