Perpustakaan Digital ITB

Through clinical example and pictorial illustration, the author examines ways in which art offers a particular means of psychological transformation in states which may otherwise be inexpressible. A transference to the art work itself is proposed. It issubmitted that, mediated within the transference/ countertransference dynamic, this‘scapegoat transference’ facilitates a particular process of psychological differentiation.The aesthetic qualities of art presented within analysis will resonate with other counter-transference affects. Clinical material demonstrates how observation of this – ‘aesthetic countertransference’ – leads to a distinction between the ‘diagrammatic’ and the ‘embodied’ image. The process of integration of shadow material is furthered by the temporary safe-keeping of the art work by the analyst.