IA few years ago, as an anthropologist, I became interested in art therapy by working alongside Grobli Zirignon, psychoanalyst, philosopher and inventor of psychoart therapy, an approach that proposes an epistemological link between psychoanalysis and art. -therapy. For Grobli Zirignon, psychoart therapy is “art therapy conceived as an extension and deepening of the psychoanalytical field”. It is truly a totally new and original way compared to classic art therapy. By two of its concepts, at least, the initiation and the mediation of the “Word”, for example, psycho-art therapy undeniably challenges socio-anthropology. For Grobli Zirignon, "initiation must allow humans symbolic control of their impulses", because "those who do not have symbolic control of their sadistic impulses are forced to project them onto another person to protect themselves from their destructiveness. So the human, through initiation, must cease to be a being of impulses in order to get rid of predatory behaviors and build a world of civilization.
Similarly, for Grobli Zirignon, the wise man must be “possessed” or “inhabited” by the “Word” as was the case at the origins of evolution, in order to limit his self-destructive action. The internalized “Word”, he says, must transform the unstructured being of drives into a being of language. These two structuring notions for the human must lead him to the awareness and acceptance of his own finitude. They are also – and this is where they are of interest to evolutionary or evolutionary anthropology – two markers of the passage from the non-human primate (naturally the prisoner of his impulses) to the human primate (who must strive to master his instincts for destruction). Even if studies have shown that there would also be artist monkeys (for example the chimpanzee Congo whose works on canvas were once studied by Desmond Morris), psycho-therapy comes to show the more cultural character of the art created by Homo sapiens and which would be one of the signatures of the human being so much sought after by paleoanthropology.
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