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A House, Not a Home: Reflecting how imagery can reveal the human psyche byJennie Vegt

October 18, 2024 Intima: A Journal of Narrative Medicine

One of the images from the Mitwelt Melt Series by Jennie Vegt. Spring 2024 Intima

“Finding meaning in suffering is sometimes the only coping strategy remaining,” says the artist. This series of six paintings explores grief in a visually complex manner.

Carl Jung believed house imagery in dreams represent the human psyche. In both artworks, the houses are familiar structures of shelter that simultaneously represent ominous confinement and isolation. We may be capable of observing and moving past some psychological structures that have become an obstruction, while others feel intertwined with our very being, like a house that fits more like a skull.

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In art, graphic medicine, narrative medicine Tags Carl Jung, graphic medicine, art, human psyche, mental illness
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