Definition:
The visionary mode of artistic creation is one of two modes of art which C.G. Jung
described in his seminal work Modern Man in Search of a Soul. According to Jung,
most art is done in a "psychological mode," which simply means that it is an attempt to
interpret and express the contents of an individual's consciousness. This content might
be a representation of external objects or of purely internal ideas, like emotions.
Jung believed, however, that there was a higher mode of art, which he labeled "visionary." When operating in this mode, an artist is not simply accessing the individual consciousness, but instead the collective unconscious of the entire human species. Ideas in the art are represented by the eternal archetypes which exist in the collective unconscious, but often they only frighten or confuse the viewer.
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