Active Imagination: Monologue or Dialogue?
Recorded Monday 1 March 2021
With Velimir B. Popović
Active Imagination Seminar Series
Jung’s encounters with the unconscious that he described in The Red Book were especially fruitful for his followers. He described his dialogues with various unconscious images and these developed into the concept of active imagination as a therapeutic technique. Yet, unfortunately, this process was never fully elaborated for future analytical psychologists. A probable reason is that the conversations Jung had with unconscious images were depicted in The Red Book as monologues.
READ MORE...He used his own words to replace other voices thus, unfortunately, silencing them and denying the reader a sense of that rapport between the imaginer and the imagined. Velimir will suggest that formation of this ‘monological imagination’ hindered the shaping of the dialogical aspect of these experiences that is central to the process of active imagination. We will consider how to work with this gap in theory and practice and to listen to the voices of the imagined others.
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Velimir B. Popović
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