미술치료의 상징과 주역(周易) 상징의 상관성 비교 연구-물과 달, 태양, 꽃, 산 주제를 중심으로

Abstract

The purpose of this article is to examine a methodology that can better understand the client’s psychology by shedding light on the universality and the specificity of the cultural context that is applied together when interpreting art works whose unconscious content is symbolically represented. To this end, we will examine the correlation between Zhouyi’s symbols and the art therapy’s symbols, which are regarded as reservoirs of symbols in our culture. Jung, the founder of analytical psychology, said that in order to understand humans, one must know not only the individual unconsciousness, but also the collective unconsciousness. Individual unconsciousness is formed by the environment based on the background of personal growth, but collective unconsciousness includes a long experience of the history and culture to which individuals belong. This implies not only the universality of symbols but also the cultural relativity to understand the archetypal images that form the basis of collective unconsciousness. Since Korea is located in the East Asian culture, it is hard to ignore the clinical experience that the symbol presented in the existing art therapy originated in the West did not reach sufficient interpretation when interpreting our client’s psychology. Thus, in order to analyze the symbolic meaning of art therapy in full, we sought correlation with the symbolism of art therapy based on Zhouyi, an ancient literature of the East Asian. Water, moon, sun, flower, and mountain among the main motifs of art therapy have the symbolic meanings in common with K’an(☵), Li(☲), Ch’en(☳) and Kên(☶) in Zhouyi. In addition, the four trigrams were expanded to 64 Hexagrams to examine the symbols and find a way to expand the interpretation. These attempts are intended to develop a symbolic system suitable for the identity of our culture and seek a methodology that can further understand the psychology of the client, and the study is thought to be meaningful in its attempt to try to expand the application of art therapy from an integrated perspective of the East Asian.