DOMAIN:

Transformation through Art

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CORE MEANING:

The self becomes easier to accept once it's made into an image.

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CLINICAL DESCRIPTION:

A dissociative condition in which vulnerability is made bearable by transforming the self into image or performance.

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CORE PATHOLOGY:

Escaping ordinary self.

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SYMPTOMS:

​-Drive towards self reinvention 

-Use of paint and performance for self restructuring

-Tendency to turn personal history into visual abstraction

-Pleasure of becoming image rather than a person

-Gradual detachment from the ordinary self

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PROGNOSIS:

Transformation brings relief, but over time the subject depends more on image and performance.