Changing Art into Research: Soliloquy Methodology / Edition 1

by Jocene Vallack

Overview

Changing Art into Research: Soliloquy Methodology presents a research methodology that enables inquiry into one’s personal experiences in an endeavour to reveal essential commonalities of human experience. Arts-informed research methods are becoming increasingly popular with scholars in Arts, Education and the Social Sciences, but there is often confusion about how to turn arts practice into rigorous inquiry.

This book examines the theoretical perspectives needed to inform these research approaches, which are often missing in methods teaching and research. Soliloquy is a new methodology that interprets and applies Husserl’s philosophical concept of Transcendental Phenomenology. It marries together the synthesizing powers of the unconscious mind with the analytical capacities of conscious cognition and articulation. It further explores the possibility that both cognitive and intuitive ways of knowing are valid and appropriate for academic inquiry, provided these methods are aligned through a philosophically consistent, theoretical framework.

This book will be of great interest to academics and postgraduate students engaged in arts-based qualitative research and those doing an arts-based practice dissertation.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781138486782
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	07/31/2020
Pages:	182
Product dimensions:	6.12(w) x 9.19(h) x (d)

About the Author

Jocene Vallack taught research methodologies at Monash University and James Cook University in Australia, and St John’s University in Tanzania. She was an invited editor for the Electronic Journal of Business Research Methods and held a Research Fellowship with CQUni. Jocene originally trained in theatre and lectured in Acting at Ballarat and RMIT Universities.

Table of Contents

List of illustrations viii

Acknowledgements ix

Preface x

1 A concise overview of Soliloquy 1

What is Soliloquy? 3

The philosophical phenomenology informing Soliloquy 5

Soliloquy - a collaborative exchange between conscious and unconscious knowledge 6

Philosophical alignment of the methodological framework 9

An example of Soliloquy in practice 14

Finally 17

2 The co-existing realities of the ephemeral and the eternal: Aristotle and Plato 19

Art and transcendence 23

Intuition and the unconscious 25

Gebser's evolution of consciousness 26

Archaic consciousness 29

Magical Consciousness 29

Mythical Consciousness 31

Mental Consciousness and Integral Consciousness 32

The limitations of Mental Consciousness 34

Sheldrake's 'science delusion' 38

3 Intuition 43

Stansted Hall - Journal 2009 48

What is mediumship? 56

Same God - different names 60

4 The theoretical perspective of Soliloquy: Transcendental Phenomenology 62

Platonism and universal form 67

Knowledge and belief 69

The a priori object 71

The pregivenness of objects 73

The story of art 77

Transcendental Phenomenology in life and research 80

Is all Phenomenology Transcendental? 85

The alter ego, apodictic truth and eidetic reduction 87

Why is Phenomenology so misunderstood? 89

The historical context of Phenomenology 93

What did Heidegger do? 94

Darren works it out 104

Bracketing 105

Existential phenomenology 108

In summary 110

5 Soliloquy for the intuitive researcher: The methods 115

Alignment in methodology 115

The methods for doing Soliloquy 121

Experience 121

Epoche 127

The Epoche and altered states of consciousness 129

Epiphany 132

Explication 135

Explanation 138

An example of Soliloquy in practice: Echo and Narcissus 139

The epiphany of the Wizard of Oz 141

A pictorial view of Soliloquy 142

A final metaphor for Transcendental Phenomenology: 'The Lady of Shalott' 143

Answering some critical concerns 151

Enhance your research: enhance your life 152

Glossary 154

Index 161