Vol 21 (2) 2003
On the Status of Outsider Art: Traces of a Critical Reflection – Claire Van Damme
The Psychotherapeutic Labour of the Subject within Visual Creative Therapy – Joannes Késenne
Adolf Wölfli’s Creation as an Attempt to Establish Time and Space – Peter Dierinck
Outsider Art: On the Importance of Repetition in the Artist’s Work and on the Traces of Matter in his Mastersignifier – Ferdy Marysse
Working and the Death Drive: On Literature and Children with Behavior Disorder – Jeroen Donckers
Working and the Death Drive: On Literature and Children with Behavior Disorder
With reference to Mannoni (1979), it is argued that the clinical practitioner must, based on his own experience, continuously "retranslate" his theoretical language into his mother tongue. As an example, this paper focusses on how the author retranslates the Freudian...
Outsider Art: On the Importance of Repetition in the Artist’s Work and on the Traces of Matter in his Mastersignifier
In the context of the debate on the art value of outsider art (in the two following senses: valuable art versus devalued art, and the value of outsider art for art history) the author investigates the central place of repetition for the artist in the creative process....
Adolf Wölfli’s Creation as an Attempt to Establish Time and Space
Based on a chronological reading of Adolf Wölfli, it is demonstrated that his work was a response to a psychological necessity to install the dimension of time. Following a brief sketch of his life, the effect of Wölfli's encounter with the psychiatrist Morgenthaler...
The Psychotherapeutic Labour of the Subject within Visual Creative Therapy
This paper explores what happens in the subject when creating visual art. It is argued on the first level that there are four steps in the creation process: (i) forming the image; (ii) creating the object; (iii) the decision to finish; and (iv) the separation. On a...
On the Status of Outsider Art: Traces of a Critical Reflection
From a background in art history, more specifically, from a background of research in contemporary art and the state of art during and after WWII, the author starts with the observation that a sharp delineation between the creative expression of psychiatric patients...