목회상담에서 예술을 어떻게 이용할까?: 예술작품 분석을 통한 상담적 의미 연구

Abstract

People become bigger and bigger physically but many of them lose health. ‘Too much,’ rather than being beneficial, may be detrimental. The existential claim of ‘too much’ is ironically nothing but ‘non being.’ This is what is going on in Korea. This article appeals for dialogue between pastoral counseling and art in order to respond effectively to this critical situation of Korea. This article presupposes that art and pastoral counseling could respond to the social situation because they begin their work from human reality. Because human reality is the starting point, art and pastoral counseling may play their different creative roles in relation to human life. Art and pastoral counseling may differ from each other in terms of concern and direction, but they share common ground in terms of the hermeneutic approach. The hermeneutic reaction to human reality, which is a gesture of both art and pastoral counseling, leads to expressive reaction. Artistic expression is transcendent while the expression of pastoral counseling is realistic. This article attempts to show the dialogical process of art and pastoral counseling. For instance, this article attempts to have dialogue between art and counseling in order to hold an intimate relationship with the client rather than to hold an observer approach to client. This article shows that artistic experience is coherent with therapeutic attitude. This article also shows that an artistic encounter is coherent with the empathic encounter that often takes place in counseling. It attempts to show that artistic encounter and empathic encounter should re-present the image of God that emerges out of lived human life. The attempt to interact with art and pastoral counseling fundamentally aims to help a person to live out the human image created according to the image of God. This article relies upon Martin Buber’s philosophical implication of dialogue and Emmanuel Levinas’ claim of ‘otherness’ in order to write out creative approaches that can be produced from the dialogue between art and pastoral counseling.