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Unlocking traumatic memories through digital stop-frame animation : a Freudian analysis
Thesis (DPhil)--University of Pretoria, 2018.
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| spelling | oai:repository.up.ac.za:2263/65572 Unlocking traumatic memories through digital stop-frame animation : a Freudian analysis Lauwrens, Jennifer nathani.luneburg@gmail.com Dreyer, Elfriede Luneburg, Nathani UCTD Psychoanalysis Freudian theory Trauma studies Traumatic memory Repression Screen memories Mourning and melancholia Hysteria Nachträglichkeit Dream analysis Humanities theses SDG-03 Humanities theses SDG-04 Humanities theses SDG-05 Humanities theses SDG-10 Humanities theses SDG-16 Thesis (DPhil)--University of Pretoria, 2018. This study critically investigates the significance of a Freudian model in an analysis of artworks included in my video-installation, Loss. A practice-led research approach is followed. The medium employed in creation of the artworks is digital stop-frame animation as video art and video-installation. An application of theoretical positions is integral to my creative work in the way that it evokes, reveals and excavates personal loss and traumatic memories. Video, and more specifically digital stop-frame animation, is argued to be a medium which advances creativity. It is perplexing, multidimensional and unique in the way that it brings together distinctive components of Freudian and contemporary trauma theory. In the research analysis visuals and narratives are used not only to contribute to or further an understanding of Freudian theory, but also to criticise and test the applicability of his theories in modern society. Performative and qualitative research methods as well as self-reflexivity assist in visual and theoretical exploration of the particularities and nature of video artworks produced by technology. These methods focus on digital stop-frame animation, which is presented as a new form of creative expression, and the way trauma, memory and loss are visualised through the medium. It includes processes such as digital painting and drawing using, for instance, a computer mouse and Adobe Photoshop. The video-animations are done by using the layering function, paint-box effects, colour filters and the Liquify tool. This tool is employed as the single means by which moving images are created. Through both the theoretical and practical components of this study it is argued that the digital layering and erasure of images mimic the process of engaging with repressed as well as remembered trauma. The practice of digital stop-frame animation is integrated in Freud’s analysis of traumatic memory, anxiety, repression, screen memories, mourning, melancholia, hysteria, Nachträglichkeit and trauma-dreams. The video artworks emphasise memory as a complex system which triggers the repression of traumatic memories of child sexual abuse, the loss of a childhood friend and miscarriage. A dominant theme that reinforces the conclusion of the study is the extent to which traumatic memory, loss and child sexual abuse are interlinked in Freud’s trauma-model. It is further supported by contemporary theory. ae2026 Visual Arts DPhil Unrestricted SDG-03: Good health and well-being SDG-04: Quality education SDG-05: Gender equality SDG-10: Reduced inequalities SDG-16: Peace, justice and strong institutions 2018-07-16T07:53:44Z 2018-07-16T07:53:44Z 2018/04/23 2018 Thesis Luneburg, N 2018, Unlocking traumatic memories through digital stop-frame animation : a Freudian analysis, DPhil Thesis, University of Pretoria, Pretoria, viewed yymmdd <http://hdl.handle.net/2263/65572> A2018 http://hdl.handle.net/2263/65572 en © 2018 University of Pretoria. All rights reserved. The copyright in this work vests in the University of Pretoria. No part of this work may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means, without the prior written permission of the University of Pretoria. application/pdf University of Pretoria |
| spellingShingle | UCTD Psychoanalysis Freudian theory Trauma studies Traumatic memory Repression Screen memories Mourning and melancholia Hysteria Nachträglichkeit Dream analysis Humanities theses SDG-03 Humanities theses SDG-04 Humanities theses SDG-05 Humanities theses SDG-10 Humanities theses SDG-16 Unlocking traumatic memories through digital stop-frame animation : a Freudian analysis |
| title | Unlocking traumatic memories through digital stop-frame animation : a Freudian analysis |
| title_full | Unlocking traumatic memories through digital stop-frame animation : a Freudian analysis |
| title_fullStr | Unlocking traumatic memories through digital stop-frame animation : a Freudian analysis |
| title_full_unstemmed | Unlocking traumatic memories through digital stop-frame animation : a Freudian analysis |
| title_short | Unlocking traumatic memories through digital stop-frame animation : a Freudian analysis |
| title_sort | unlocking traumatic memories through digital stop frame animation a freudian analysis |
| topic | UCTD Psychoanalysis Freudian theory Trauma studies Traumatic memory Repression Screen memories Mourning and melancholia Hysteria Nachträglichkeit Dream analysis Humanities theses SDG-03 Humanities theses SDG-04 Humanities theses SDG-05 Humanities theses SDG-10 Humanities theses SDG-16 |
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