Frames of enquiry: Perplexity, self-integration, pregnant images

Philosophy, art-based research and the various forms of arts therapy have deep affinities. Some aspects of this affinity are to be found in ideas developed by such very different thinkers as John Dewey, Michael Polanyi, and Susanne Langer. Dewey’s reflections on the matrices of enquiry, Polanyi’s on the nature of tacit integrations, and Langer’s on the heuristic fertility of images allow us to develop conceptual tools for understanding constitutive matrices of forms of self-understanding