Drawing our dreams or living our dreams (2) / Desenhando o que sonhamos e vivendo (2 parte)

In 1991 I started to draw some of my dreams while I was undertaking my first Junguian Analysis. This one is called “PEZ RUBI” = Ruby Fish (obvious…but not obvious…because in my dream a man gave me a ruby ring which transformed in front of my eyes into a fish: a fish in a finger!!!

this experience, this dream was pleasant. (click on the fish)

In 1996 was born my second daughter and we called her …….RUBI

Em 1991, durante minha primeira análise Junguiana, comecei a desenhar com muito amor meus sonhos! este aqui o chamei “Pez Rubí” em Espanhol ja que morava em Montevideu. Obviamente, parece que é somente porque é vermelho …não é? más no meu sonho um homem me presenteava com um anel de rubi que, para minha surpresa, se transformava no meu dedo …num peixe vermelho!!! um peixe no dedo!

O sonho foi catalogado por mim como muito prazeroso e cheio de graça. Em 1996, nascia minha segunda filha..e adivinham qual foi o nome que escolhimos??? RUBI

Drawing scary things too (3) / Desenhando nossos monstros (3)

No Pre-Congresso da WFH em Junho, Istambul, apresentei um trabalho com 2 adolescentes que tinham terrores noturnos devidos à imaginação de: imagens assustadoras antes de dormir. Fiz um trabalho grupal com os 2 e umas das técnicas usadas foi o desenhar e depois perguntar as imagens o que “queriam” deles?

Com a elaboração, o mêdo foi passando porque as imagens que assustavam fizeram “parte” deles…eram mais humanizadas, portanto mais compreensíveis.

Aqui vou mostrar um ser gigante, muito vermelho e quente  do meus sonhos. o chamei de “Demônio de Vermelho”. E, no próprio sonho conversei com ele. Nem sempre se sonha com aneis, rubis e peixinhos vermelhos!!!

In Istanbul last Pre-Congress, I talked about 2 adolescents that were suffering from their own imagination’s products: at night, before fall to sleep (with great difficulties) , they use to see scary vaults and little red eyes staring at one of them. Drawing what scare us, help to humanize, to make them more familiar, part of our soul. Even a “REDevil”

When you use art you practice sanity.

I found the abstract of my dissertation/ O resumo da dissertação do mestrado em 2002

My dissertation was about my 7 years-work with a group of children (who became teens) with severe hemophilia A. I used from the beginning expressive techniques like drawings, dramatization of the blood clotting process (tags: posters in WFH ” congresses), and of course the telling stories approach.

My Junguian , symbolic and arquetypal approach of the blood clotting disorder, with his opposites of FLOWING and CLOTTING, allowed me to understand better the family’s reactions, fears, concerns about HOW to raise a child…and at the same time this approach with the constructive and destructive aspects of both FLOW and CLOT (in Alchemy: SOLUTIO and COAGULATIO) amplifies the vision and way of dealing with a PERSON+ Hemophilia. I have always said : he is a child who has hemophilia, has a beautiful smile, a brother , a bad temper, or this or that….he is an individual who has to develop, grow, produce and interact…and be happy and sad…Life is happening.

Passaram-se muitos anos! os lados construtivos do Fluir e Coagular como “their dark side too”!

THIS SLIDE SHOWS THE OPPOSITES OF FLOWING (FLUIR) AND CLOTTING (COAGULAR) IN BOTH AREAS :

MIND (MENTE) AND BODY (CORPO). OF COURSE THE DIVISION MIND-BODY IS NOT REAL IN PRACTICE, I BELIEVE BOTH ARE VERY MUCH UNITED, A WHOLE BEING. BUT IN ORDER TO EXEMPLIFY I SEPARATED THEM.

You can see that neither of the position, flowing or clotting is constructive always! both can present destructive behaviours or feelings in this wholeness (body/mind).