All the creative art psychotherapies (art, dance, music, drama, poetry) can trace their roots to C.G. Jung's early work on active imagination. Jung developed his concept between the years 1913 and 1916, following his break with Freud. Jungian analyst Joan Chodorow here offers a collection of Jung's writings on the active imagination, gathered together for the first time.
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Acknowledgements | ||
Introduction | 1 | |
1 | Confrontation with the unconscious | 21 |
2 | The transcendent function | 42 |
3 | 'The technique of differentiation between the ego and the figures of the unconscious' | 61 |
4 | Commentary on The Secret of the Golden Flower | 73 |
5 | The aims of psychotherapy | 84 |
6 | A study in the process of individuation | 97 |
7 | The Tavistock lectures | 143 |
8 | The psychological aspects of the Kore | 154 |
9 | On the nature of the psyche | 158 |
10 | Three letters to Mr O. (1947) | 163 |
11 | Mysterium Coniunctionis | 166 |
12 | Foreword to van Helsdingen: Beelden uit het Onbewuste | 175 |
Afterword: Post-Jungian contributions | 177 | |
Bibliography | 180 | |
List of fantasies and visions | 186 | |
Subject index | 188 | |
Name index | 197 |
Joan Chodorow, Ph.D., is an analyst member of the C. G. Jung Institute of San Francisco, in private practice. She is a registered dance therapist and former president of the American Dance Therapy Association.