Psychomequie
Psychomequie (or Psicomequié in Portuguese) is a term used to designate both a musical style and a clinical study and, later, to describe the community and sect, conducted by the artist and anglo-brazilian thinker Luiz Bruno.
In its all embracing form, the Psychomequie alludes to the existence of an archaic and unconscious dimension in the subject, organised from elements such as melody, rhythm and harmony, from which certain ways of relating to the world are affirmed as well as other forms of emotion and expressions of a generalised longing inside every person.
Accessing the Psychomequie is not based on words and speaking as in the freudian-lacanian talking cure, but occurs through music directed at a more archaic and intensely emotional dimension of language.
Origin of the Term[edit]
The term Psychomequie was born out of a combination of studies by Heinrich Wilhelm Dove, Sigmund Freud and Jaques Lacan. The origin of the term comes from combining the terms Psyche (Greek) with an informal expression utilised in Brazil used to ask a question: Como é que é? (What was that?)
The inspiration came from the term "ID" as created by Austrian Psychoanalyst Sigmund Freud. As with the Freaudian ID.[1], Luiz Bruno's psychomequie refers to the archaic and unconscious dimension of the human mind[2]. By following Jacques Lacan's theory regarding the shaping of the unconscious mind, Luiz Bruno considered that the lacanian formulation that "the unconscious structured as language" was not only true to the freudian theories, but also help aid in the comprehension of unconscious phenomena.
However, in opposition to Freud and Lacan, Luiz Bruno - based on new evidence from linguistic anthropology that relates the origins of language to the singing of birds[3] - affirmed that thought and language are not based on the semantic definition of the word, but by its musicality[4][5]
Therefore, meanings and significance would not be contained in these representations but in the sounds, as in primordially like in the language of babies.
Psychomequie in Music[edit]
Using the studies conducted by Luiz Bruno for access to the content on how the unconscious is affected by sound as basis, a technique that can communicate directly to the unconscious mind of a person was developed that did not require words as a medium, or even moreover, did also not require other representations such as images. The access to this unconscious content through music revealed itself to be extremely potent, thus allowing immense clinical results.
Luiz Bruno developed a formal structure of generating music from which one could produce songs that would access the Pyschomequie of any and all individuals, being even able to create musical compositions using harmony, rhythm and melody capable of achieving states of extreme peace and well-being in any human being. He also demonstrated how musical taste goes beyond the possibility of resonance with the characteristics unique to the Psychomequie of each person.
Based on such studies, the term Psychomequie was then adopted to describe the musical style that utilises the techniques developed by Luiz Bruno.
Pyschomequie Community[edit]
These great achievements led Luiz Bruno to go a step beyond: to plan and implement a community based on the Psychomequie technique as a means of making peace and well-being available to everyone.
After beginning his clinical studies, Luiz Bruno was victim of repression by the Brazilian Military Regime (1964-1985) being exiled in the United Kingdom and travelling through Asia and Oceania. After such experiences and existential discoveries, Luiz Bruno incorporated his clinical technique as the seed towards a new proposal of society based on the principles of Anarcho-primitivism and of the Utopian Socialism of Charles Fourier.
Only one community based on the principles of Psychomequie was founded on Brazilian territory, not by coincidence in the region of Vila da Glória (state of Santa Catarina in southern Brazil) where Benoit Jules Mure had founded in the 19th century the first and only ever phalanstery based on the principles of Fourier's Utopian Socialism.
In this community, which ended its activities in 1997, peace and well-being are promoted by using the musical techniques of Psychomequie to access unconscious mind content, releasing high dosages of endorphine that elevate individuals towards states of plenitude and fulfillment.
Unfolding of Psychomequie[edit]
Currently it is possible to consider the experiments made in psychomusicology by the American doctor Andrija Puharich as well as the techniques of stimulation Binaural Beats[6] by researchers Dr. Horowitz[7] and Gerald Oster[8] are important for the unfolding of the original studies started by Luiz Bruno, even though there are very few direct references.
References[edit]
- ↑ "Id, ego and super-ego". Wikipedia. 2018-05-14.
- ↑ "Unconscious mind". Wikipedia. 2018-03-14.
- ↑ "Language of the birds". Wikipedia. 2018-04-09.
- ↑ "Ciência Hoje | Canto de pássaro, linguagem de gente". cienciahoje.org.br (in português). Retrieved 2018-05-27.
- ↑ "Fala humana e canto dos passarinhos têm raiz genética comum". O Globo (in português). 2014-12-11. Retrieved 2018-05-27.
- ↑ "Binaural beats". Simple English Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. 2017-08-30.
- ↑ "Leonard Horowitz". Wikipedia, la enciclopedia libre (in español). 2017-11-05.
- ↑ "Stories by Gerald Oster". Scientific American. Retrieved 2018-05-27.
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