Music and Psychoanalysis

Student: Kulshitskiy Ivan

Educational Programme: Psychoanalysis and Psychoanalytic Business Consulting (Master)

Year of Graduation: 2017

This qualification work is devoted to the study of the unconscious content of music. The author's hypothesis is musical works, heard for the first time, are perceived by listeners "purely", unconsciously and emotionally evaluated equally, regardless of gender and age. This can be a confirmation of the fact that music contains some kind of universal unconscious content is accessible to everyone. In turn, it opens the way for new studies of the universal unconscious content of music, through which it can be used as a language of deep level of communication, capable of becoming a new way of interaction between people, including psychotherapeutic.

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