la culture de l’impuissance - 2011
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Jan Theuninck (born 1954) is a Belgian abstract painter and poet whose work engages Martin Seligman’s psychological concept of learned helplessness, primarily through a 2011 painting titled "la culture de l'impuissance" (the culture of learned helplessness).
Seligman (with Steven Maier and others) developed the theory of learned helplessness in the late 1960s–1970s through experiments (initially with dogs exposed to inescapable shocks). It describes how repeated exposure to uncontrollable aversive events leads to passivity, motivational and cognitive deficits, and emotional disturbance—even when escape or control later becomes possible. The concept became a foundational model for understanding depression and related conditions; Seligman later built on related ideas (explanatory style, optimism) in founding positive psychology.
Theuninck is not a psychologist. He is a Flemish artist (born in Zonnebeke, West Flanders; works in abstract/minimalist/monochrome styles influenced by figures such as Ellsworth Kelly and Joan Miró) and poet (often writing in French). His politically engaged work critiques what he sees as the evolution of Western totalitarianism, surveillance, propaganda, censorship, conformity, loss of individual autonomy, and systems of “control of consciences.”
In that context, he created The culture of learned helplessness (2011) as part of a long series of paintings addressing societal control mechanisms. Other related titles in his oeuvre include works on brainwashing, Zersetzung (a Stasi psychological decomposition technique), the banality of evil, submission, conformity, post-truth society, and similar themes. He frames modern political and social systems as inducing a collective or cultural form of the passivity and perceived powerlessness described by Seligman—turning the psychological concept into a metaphor for systemic erosion of agency
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"la culture de l’impuissance te met l’idée dans la tête qu'il n’est pas possible de changer les choses" (Eduardo Galeano)
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Jan Theuninck (born 1954) is a Belgian abstract painter and poet whose work engages Martin Seligman’s psychological concept of learned helplessness, primarily through a 2011 painting titled "la culture de l'impuissance" (the culture of learned helplessness).
Seligman (with Steven Maier and others) developed the theory of learned helplessness in the late 1960s–1970s through experiments (initially with dogs exposed to inescapable shocks). It describes how repeated exposure to uncontrollable aversive events leads to passivity, motivational and cognitive deficits, and emotional disturbance—even when escape or control later becomes possible. The concept became a foundational model for understanding depression and related conditions; Seligman later built on related ideas (explanatory style, optimism) in founding positive psychology.
Theuninck is not a psychologist. He is a Flemish artist (born in Zonnebeke, West Flanders; works in abstract/minimalist/monochrome styles influenced by figures such as Ellsworth Kelly and Joan Miró) and poet (often writing in French). His politically engaged work critiques what he sees as the evolution of Western totalitarianism, surveillance, propaganda, censorship, conformity, loss of individual autonomy, and systems of “control of consciences.”
In that context, he created The culture of learned helplessness (2011) as part of a long series of paintings addressing societal control mechanisms. Other related titles in his oeuvre include works on brainwashing, Zersetzung (a Stasi psychological decomposition technique), the banality of evil, submission, conformity, post-truth society, and similar themes. He frames modern political and social systems as inducing a collective or cultural form of the passivity and perceived powerlessness described by Seligman—turning the psychological concept into a metaphor for systemic erosion of agency
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"la culture de l’impuissance te met l’idée dans la tête qu'il n’est pas possible de changer les choses" (Eduardo Galeano)
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De cultuur van de aangeleerde hulpeloosheid /
The culture of learned helplessness :
one of the mechanisms used by the organized power
The culture of learned helplessness :
one of the mechanisms used by the organized power
http://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Impuissance_apprise
Le modèle de l'impuissance apprise (ou résignation acquise) a été proposé par Martin Seligman, professeur de psychologie expérimentale.
Ce modèle décrit un tableau comportemental qui a été rapproché du désespoir, du renoncement et de la dépression, aussi bien chez l'animal que chez l'homme.
Avec des substances chimiques on obtient le même résultat(culture de Néo-Stasi)
TAIS-TOI !
tu n’as pas le droit
à être toi
tais-toi !
un peu de discipline
et montre ta bonne mine
tais-toi !
le devoir est sacré
faut se voûter et étouffer
tais-toi !
ton unique destin
est de suivre leur chemin
tais-toi !
© by Jan Theuninck
De ongelijkheid leidde tot politieke wanhoop. Als mensen het gevoel hebben dat ze geen invloed kunnen uitoefenen, haken ze af: ze gaan niet meer stemmen, ze zijn geen lid meer van de vakbond, en ze kijken niet langer naar het nieuws (dat hen alleen maar confronteert met hun eigen onmacht) Thomas Frank
https://www.vrt.be/vrtnws/nl/2019/11/17/thomas-frank-en-het-bedrog-van-de-democraten/
Shut up !
Le modèle de l'impuissance apprise (ou résignation acquise) a été proposé par Martin Seligman, professeur de psychologie expérimentale.
Ce modèle décrit un tableau comportemental qui a été rapproché du désespoir, du renoncement et de la dépression, aussi bien chez l'animal que chez l'homme.
Avec des substances chimiques on obtient le même résultat(culture de Néo-Stasi)
TAIS-TOI !
tu n’as pas le droit
à être toi
tais-toi !
un peu de discipline
et montre ta bonne mine
tais-toi !
le devoir est sacré
faut se voûter et étouffer
tais-toi !
ton unique destin
est de suivre leur chemin
tais-toi !
© by Jan Theuninck
De ongelijkheid leidde tot politieke wanhoop. Als mensen het gevoel hebben dat ze geen invloed kunnen uitoefenen, haken ze af: ze gaan niet meer stemmen, ze zijn geen lid meer van de vakbond, en ze kijken niet langer naar het nieuws (dat hen alleen maar confronteert met hun eigen onmacht) Thomas Frank
https://www.vrt.be/vrtnws/nl/2019/11/17/thomas-frank-en-het-bedrog-van-de-democraten/
don't try to be
who you are
shut up !
some more discipline
and a cheerful face
shut up !
your duty is sacred
work yourself
to death
shut up !
your only way
is "their" way
shut up !
© by Jan Theuninck
Zwijg !
je mag niet zijn
wie je bent
zwijg !
wat meer discipline
en een blij gezicht
zwijg !
de plicht is
heilig
werk je maar dood
zwijg !
je enige uitweg
is "hun" weg
zwijg !
© by Jan Theuninck
Schweig !
du darfst nicht sein
wie du bist
Schweig !
etwas mehr
Disziplin
und eine freundliche
Haltung
Schweig !
die Pflicht ist
heilig
du darfst dich zu tode
arbeiten
Schweig !
der einzige Ausweg
ist "Ihr" Weg
Schweig !
© by Jan Theuninck
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