In this ongoing project I am planning to investigate the way images communicate an idea through their juxtaposition.
The starting point was that of the wrong messages received during childhood which contribute to an unhealthy development of our character. These messages are called injunctions. Goulding and Goulding, (1997: 8-9) define injunctions as 'messages from the child ego state of parents, given out of the parent's own pains: unhappiness, anxiety, disappointment, anger, frustration, secret desires.' Some common injuctions are: Don't. Don't be. Don't be close. Don't be important. Don't be you.
The left image represents the psychological portrait of the subject, while the image on the right symbolizes the effect of the unhealthy messages received unconsciously during childhood.
*Goulding, M. and Goulding R (1997) Changing Lives Through Redecision Therapy, New York: Grove Press
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