The Role of Imagination in Jiyong Lee’s Staged Photographs with an Emphasis on Psychoanalysis

The imagination or mental image is the foundation of the emergence of artistic creativity and its root is in the unconscious mind of man. The creation of a work of art with aesthetic designs is a form of fantasy. Art relates the soul to the world of eternity and beyond. Staged photography is a fantasy or dream to become a reality that has to come back to itself. In Ji Yong Lee’s pictures, one can see the role of creative visualization in mental arrangements and understand the solid roots of the images of the unconscious mind and their objectification in comparison with their presentations under the realm of fantasy. Based on Carl Gustav Jung’s psychological theories, this article studied the creation of fantasy on the scene of reality. According to Jung’s theories, it can be concluded that Ji Yong Lee entered the world of his dreams by emphasizing unknown mental phenomena and traveling inward, and from plants such as lotus, animals such as mice and crows, insects such as worms, ants, eggs, etc. used to put one element instead of several elements; In the sense that he introduced unknown thoughts instead of known crows and repeated the imaginative space of his images into an element for the completeness of the concept and manifested the content of his imagination. Also, in his various images such as Resurrection, which emphasizes life, which was the same as the effects of archetypes, the memories of drowning have been revealed and depicted by the associative link (father) and it causes his rebirth.