Evening Seacoast Vista Collage

Gerry Joe Weise, Evening Seacoast Vista, mixed media collage, Adelaide, South Australia, 2006. The “id” in art? In Sigmund Freud’s (psychologist) theory, the “id” (from the German “Es”) is the unconscious instinctual part of the mind, where a person’s basic needs, hidden desires and feelings coexist. Freud’s primary methods for unmasking id content, were dream analysis and free association. The “id” is also one of the three divisions of the psyche, along with the “ego” and the “superego”. Freud thought that ego is not the master, that the self, our consciousness of our own identity is not unified. This reads like a contract, a binding agreement between the three rival parties of the psyche, for better or for worse! The rational ego’s role is to smooth those desires: where the superego examines society’s moral standards, suppressing those that are not acceptable, while the id manifests primitive needs with innate impulses. In simplified terms, the conscious pilot control of the individual is an illusion, meaning that the conscious is vulnerable to the unconscious. In sociological terms, the id is associated with repressed or antisocial urges. Because of the id’s efforts to satisfy its cravings, it struggles with the practical and social applications prescribed by the ego and the superego. Leading to the “pleasure principle”, the intuitive drive to seek pleasure and avoid discomfort or pain, performed by the id to reduce psychic tension. According to the Freudian pleasure-pain principle, the id acts entirely without reason. Its functions and working processes are completely unconscious in the adult, although it supplies the fuel for conscious mental existence. The id plays a distinctly significant role in positive artistic expressions that have an abstract element, such as creating art or composing music. The true significance of an artwork or composition, lays in the eyes of the beholder. Authorship is the product of social references, whereby the artist shuffles different cultural influences, as a collage of borrowed ideas. Art fueled by the id, satisfying the artist’s cravings, and the struggles with social order. Imaginative Thought Experiment. Radical level: Brain matter has mass and dimensions, it is an objective existence. While the mind, is a subjective individual experience, as it has no dimensions and no physical properties. Our view is that the world consists of two fundamental entities: mind and matter. This is the dualism for the two differences of thinking in our reality. Dualism is also the division of something conceptual into two opposed or contrasted aspects. The thought experiment is to make your mind a blank slate, then write any two opposing ideas. Execute them both the best you can, and watch how the mind works upon these, to form more complex concepts. The art of thinking? Let me think of choices. My choice shall be an art in itself.

Collage:Paper on Wood

Original:One-of-a-kind Artwork

Size:66.9 W x 51.2 H x 2 D in

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