{"id":114779,"date":"2025-10-28T10:00:36","date_gmt":"2025-10-28T10:00:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jungian.directory\/fcxfougk\/?post_type=mec-events&#038;p=114779"},"modified":"2025-10-28T10:00:36","modified_gmt":"2025-10-28T10:00:36","slug":"dialogue-with-the-unconscious-jung-and-the-active-imagination","status":"publish","type":"mec-events","link":"https:\/\/jungian.directory\/fcxfougk\/jungian-events\/dialogue-with-the-unconscious-jung-and-the-active-imagination\/","title":{"rendered":"Dialogue with the Unconscious: Jung and the Active Imagination"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"font_8 wixui-rich-text__text\"><span class=\"wixui-rich-text__text\"><span dir=\"auto\">For Jung, as for Freud, dreams are the royal road to the unconscious. But for the great Zurich psychologist, there is another, that of active imagination, which he will experience during his trying years 1913-1916 \u2013 after his break with the father of psychoanalysis \u2013 and which he will record in the famous Red Book.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"font_8 wixui-rich-text__text\"><span class=\"wixui-rich-text__text\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"font_8 wixui-rich-text__text\"><span class=\"wixui-rich-text__text\"><span dir=\"auto\">Fixing the images that pass through us, allowing an affect or a fantasy to arise allows, always under the vigilance of the conscious, to dialogue with the intimate figures of our soul and to enrich our inner life. Such listening, with sometimes surprising effects, restores the link with our deepest part, and thus offers precious therapeutic support.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"font_8 wixui-rich-text__text\"><span class=\"wixui-rich-text__text\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"font_8 wixui-rich-text__text\"><span class=\"wixui-rich-text__text\"><span dir=\"auto\">Illustrating his point with numerous clinical vignettes, Jean-Fran\u00e7ois Alizon precisely describes the practice of active imagination during treatment. By situating it in the history of culture, he reveals how familiar it was to many artists, philosophers, and poets over the centuries.\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For Jung, as for Freud, dreams are the royal road to the unconscious. 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