Elar

Elar

Elar's Weekly Questions are structured around the translation of psychological vocabulary into concrete ethical and performative practice. Persona and shadow, drawn from Jung, are not treated merely as theories of identity but become tools for examining character construction, shame, hidden material and the gap between the socially performed self and what is excluded from it. The Wheel of Consent and questions surrounding interruption bring an important ethical dimension to this psychological orientation.

A recurring feature of Elar's research is an attraction to the moment when an action ceases to proceed smoothly. Interruption, failure, shame and resistance are often more generative than seamless execution because they expose the systems that normally organise behaviour. Psychological depth therefore becomes interesting when it produces a specific relation or rupture rather than remaining an abstract promise of authenticity.

For Clarisse, Elar offers a neighbouring but distinct route into excluded material. Clarisse increasingly approaches exclusion through mythic figures, abjection, historical survival, ritual and material transformation; Elar approaches it through the split between persona and shadow and through consent-based interpersonal structures. Their shared concern is what a system must exclude in order to maintain a coherent surface. The difference is important: Elar keeps the investigation close to interpersonal psychology, while Clarisse increasingly externalises it into image, creature, material and historical constellation.