Summary
Contents
In contemporary Western societies, the visual domain has come to assume a thus far unprecedented cultural centrality. Daily life is replete with a potentially endless stream of images and other visual messages: from the electronic and paper-based billboards of the street, to the TV and Internet feeds of the home. The visual has become imbued with a symbolic potency, a signifying power that seemingly eclipses that of all other sensory data.
The central aim of this four-volume collection is to explore key approaches to visual research methods and to consider some of the core principles, issues, debates and controversies surrounding the use of visual techniques in relation to three key enterprises: 1) documentation and representation; 2) interpretation and classification and 3) elicitation and collaboration.
Volume 1: Principles, Issues, Debates and Controversies in Visual Research serves as a theoretical backdrop to the field as a whole. It introduces core epistemological, ethical and methodological debates that effectively cut across the four volume collection as a whole. Volume 2: Documentation and Representation illustrates approaches to visual documentation and representation, from classical documentaries to contemporary, state of the art modes of visual anthropology and ethnography. Volume 3: Interpretation and Classification examines core debates surrounding and approaches to visual analysis. Finally, Volume 4: Elicitation and Collaboration explores participative approaches to visual inquiry.
A Therapeutic Perspective: The use of Drawings in Child Psychoanalysis and Social Science
A Therapeutic Perspective: The use of Drawings in Child Psychoanalysis and Social Science
Introduction
In this chapter I concentrate on the communicative function of drawings in child analysis and their use in social research. As the use of drawings is described in a psychoanalytical framework, I will briefly outline the psychoanalytical approach, considering pictorial images and drawings as expressions of the unconscious emotional aspects of a person. Freud's model of the mind will be presented in a simplified way, concentrating on ...