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experience. In fact, the snapshot of arrested human postures
by photography directed more attention to physical and
psychic posture than ever before. The age of the photograph
has become the age of gesture and mime and dance, as no
other age has ever been. Freud and Jung built their
observations on the interpretation of the languages of both
individual and collective postures and gestures with respect to
dreams and to the ordinary acts of everyday life. The physical
and psychic gestalts , or “still” shots, with which they worked
were much owing to the posture world revealed by the
photograph. The photograph is just as useful for collective, as
for individual, postures and gestures, whereas written and
printed language is biased toward the private and individual
posture. Thus, the traditional figures of rhetoric were individual
postures of mind of the private speaker in relation to an
audience, whereas myth and Jungian archetypes are collective