Dorit Noy-Sharav

The Artist’s PLAY and the Artistic Experience: Integrating Emotional Operating Systems and Contending with FEAR of Death

This paper examines how artistic creativity, as one mode of PLAY, enables both artists and respondents/audiences to express and integrate diverse emotional operating systems. Through the theoretical framework of affective neuroscientist Jaak Panksepp, complemented by psychoanalytic perspectives, the manuscript analyzes...