The Windmill and the Individuation Process in Modernity: the Mystery of Sublimatio

• 영문명: The Windmill and the Individuation Process in Modernity: the Mystery of Sublimatio
• 발행기관: 국제모래놀이치료학회
• 저자명: Pedro Henrique Leonetti Habimorad
• 간행물 정보: 『International Journal of Jungian Sandplay Therapy』Vol.1 No.1, 45~60쪽, 전체 16쪽
• 주제분류: 사회과학 > 심리학
• 파일형태: PDF
• 발행일자: 2023.12.31

영문 초록

As an essential means of production that emerged in the Middle Ages, the windmill underwent many transformations, playing a crucial role in establishing medieval cities in the genesis of modern life. The windmill's popularity in the West was due to an essential structural change related to the combination of two rotational axes through a gear. Analogously, the modern man starts to emerge as an individual combining two axes: an external and public one, characterized by the relationship with the other and with the world; and an internal and private one, in which the relationship with oneself takes place. Based on the windmill’s history and how it was conjured up in world literature, the present work starts from the hypothesis that its symbolism refers to the process of individuation, in both its objective interpsychic level, which concerns the archetypal dynamics of alterity; and its intrapsychic level, related to the integration of unconscious content. Finally, the windmill also invites us to understand it as a symbol of the alchemical operation of sublimatio. As a metaphor for the individuation process, the sublimatio operation separates and reintegrates the unconscious contents into the psyche, bringing new insights and expanding individual existential possibilities.

목차

Introduction

Two axles and one gear: the history of the windmill in the West

The windmill and the interpsychic aspect of individuation

The windmill as a symbol of sublimation in the therapeutic process

The windmill in the sandbox: two clinical cases excerpts

Conclusion

References

키워드

windmill individuation alterity anima/animus sublimatio Sandplay therapy