Archetypes are constant, eternal, but unknowable; archetypal images are constantly in the making. Jung’s Red Book images still have the power to fascinate us because Jung found by engaging these images a direct access to the collective unconscious. Through imagination and dialogue, or ‘active imagination,’ a healing technique, he experienced and then expressed with pen and paint, archetypal personifications from his tumultuous dreams and fantasies. Active imagination is a process whereby we hold psychic space for ongoing inner dialogue through relationships with autonomous parts from the unconscious, providing what the psyche needs for our individuation.
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