Today, I would like to talk about the relationship between music and our spiritual world
and its mechanism of action. Freud said that poets and
philosophers had discovered the unconscious before me, and what I did was to find the scientific method by examining the
unconscious. We also know that Freud
saw art in the context of narcissistic gratification and sublimation
. Hanna Segel, on the other hand, evaluates art within the framework of depressive anxieties and restoration
. And he says, if depressive anxiety can be tolerated by the self
it becomes a stimulus for creativity. In this
case, the artist is actually the person who can tolerate depressive anxiety more
and expresses the inner world material perfectly.
Again, in Freud's words, like the mother's voice soothing the baby, music
also has the feature of soothing the person who is grieving loss. People experience pleasure, trembling, enthusiasm, confusion, and sadness in the face of a musical
piece. Music merges with the lost object and mourning in the inner
world. Listening to music and being affected
is restorative, like a symbolic repetition of previous experience. All this happens outside of the consciousness
, but it informs us
through the body and sensations. Words are never enough for expression. In the womb
there is music and rhythm before words.
Music evokes memories and creates emotions in those memories.
In this case, those memories are processed again with a new meaning and disturb
their destructive side is decreasing or disappearing. The artist creates a nostalgia
regresses and regresses the listeners. Pain and pleasure coexist in nostalgia. There is a return to the lost object.
On the other hand, music represents the archaic features of the unknown unconscious
. It defines the emotions, perceptions and confusion that people have difficulty in defining in a non-verbal way and reveals them symbolically.
It has the meaning of returning to the lost object as well as the representation of experiences
. Unconscious conflicts find satisfaction through music. Melodies
are more memorable than words. Meeting a new piece of music
is like meeting a new person. The most important features of music One of them
is that it has a feature that reduces loneliness. Like a baby being afflicted,
low sounds soothe, while loud sounds excite and alarm.
When solitude and silence or darkness are tweening to us
we tend to seek reassurance of sound. Whistling in the dark
creates the illusion that someone is with us, and creates a sense of security, albeit counterintuitive
.
Words can be true and false as the product of mental activity
but what are the sounds? right or wrong they just exist. While the mother
is in the womb, the voice means the continuity of the mother's existence.
The mother's voice creates the mother in the baby's mind. Voice
has been maintaining its existence since the womb of the mother as the most important investment tool for the baby's self-expression to have an impact on the world. When the baby is 3 weeks old, he makes 4 different
screams. Hunger, anger, pain, frustration, each of these affects the mother differently. The melodies not only protect people psychologically from the danger of the unknown, but also create a space of omnipotence away from internal conflicts.
Time is fluid in the field of influence of music. In a world where emotions are conflicting
, music creates inner peace and provides emotional integrity.
This situation creates an effect just like a baby's fear of the outside world and irregular sounds
calming down with a mother's voice.
br /> Kohut, on the other hand, states that music is a tool to overcome initial fears
. According to Mahler, music is an important
facilitator of transformation, without threatening parts of the personality
and making references to the past. We see him describe the kingdom as he discovered it. It suddenly illuminates the unconscious
and the light spreads to the surface. Symbols that reach consciousness together with the
elements in a piece of music create aesthetic excitement and pleasure. The first pleasure
actually starts in the womb where there is no word. Start from the fact that pain and pleasure
live simultaneously in music Traumas and painful experiences in some regions are transferred to the next generations with the symbolization feature of music. Music is a universal
language that affects people. It is the expression of what cannot be put into words. In Freud's definition
, art is an adult's attitude towards life, the pleasure of play
is a step beyond reality. It is not the heat itself, but a theatrical
description.
Our brain is directly affected by music, blood pressure is affected, the body
is affected. Music contributes to our lives by increasing creativity, increasing positive emotions, eliminating loneliness
, affecting self-confidence, influencing performance, providing motivation
and reducing the perception of pain
. It has a curative therapeutic effect and has been used as a tool in the treatment of diseases since the past
with this aspect.
It has a reducing effect on aggression. It has an anti-anxiety-reducing effect
.
Music has the ability to increase the secretion of endorphins and it has an effective role in increasing attention and concentration in children
. It also has the effect of increasing
power of expression, encouraging, reducing isolation, reducing stress and
pain. It creates an effect by changing alpha and theta
waves in the brain.
Anthems are also used as symbols of social identity. Music
has always been used as a motivation tool in religious rites and wars. We see that the regional identity, local styles and historical events are symbolized by
music.
It is known that music is effective on serotonin, dopamine, adrenaline, testosterone hormones
. In China, in the Far East, in Egypt, in Anatolia
In Rome, music was used as a treatment method and a healing tool.
In Central Asia, kopuz and saz were used as an important
instrument that expels evil spirits, while the drum was used as an instrument for spirituality in Altai Turks.
It has been an instrument used as a treatment tool.
Alzheimer's patients Music is effective in reducing delusions, agitation, anxiety,
in reducing apathy, abnormal motor activities, and in regulating sleep
. While it is effective in decreasing the level of fear and anxiety,
reducing the levels of depression and anxiety, music has an effect on increasing cognitive
activity and increasing memory.
According to shamans, all disasters are between the physical world and the metaphysical world
It occurs when the bond and balance are broken. In the rituals, the shaman
tries to establish this balance again.
Here, spiritual treatment is aimed at
by making use of certain techniques and music. Music allows the client to express themselves in verbal and non-verbal ways
and provides a motivation for change. In the process of music
therapy, empathy, understanding, validation and solution are located around the main axis
. It is aimed to improve mental and physical health by creating feedback, insight, help, intervention and transformation
. The main idea in music
therapy is to stimulate and reveal forgotten emotions
to change the mood of the person and to adapt
to healthy living conditions. Some emotions are experienced with the fact that memories are coded with music and remembered with music
. In the field of consciousness
memories that are recalled are processed and stored in the memory with a new meaning
and their disturbing aspects are removed. Music
therapy is a process in which issues related to coping with feelings of worthlessness, feeling unsafe, perception of threat, and health concerns
can be overcome. The client begins to repair and reorganize their relationships.
It is a process that provides a result-oriented drive for change. In the inner processes
a re-activation and transformation begins to emerge.
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