«Post-traumatic stress syndrome» of New music

Abstract

The article is devoted New music of the postwar period. The author analyzes the concept of creative and artistic practices based on three protective psychological mechanisms proposed in the work of Erich Fromm’s «Escape from Freedom» («Escape from Freedom» 1941) Fromm writes about the mechanisms of action of mental factors that motivate a person to make a conscious rejection of freedom of expression and escape from himself. Determinism parameters and dictates the invention itself, system serial technology has become one of the methods of aesthetics «avoidance» auditory association with the previous musical experience. Other protective mechanisms and «escape from freedom», in terms of Fromm become spontaneity and indeterminism, become highly relevant in the late 1950s, early 1960s, and «de-personalization» disengagement in collage mosaic - a kind of «death of the author». Research method in this paper becomes a comparative analysis, which are involved in psychology, and new music. Based on the method of understanding the meaning and logotherapy of V. Frankl, author of analytical material focuses around the relations of the word (logos), sound and new musical of syntax. Creation of New Music composers of the second half of the twentieth century, becomes a kind of post-war reflexes, sound evidence of post-traumatic syndrome, which served as the object of study in this paper.