Marion Woodman, in an interview with Tina Stromsted said ~<\/p>\n
I was in analysis, but my analyst was outraged at the thought of body movement. His attitude, was, \u2018If you can\u2019t transform your dreams there\u2019s something wrong with the way you\u2019re handling your dreams.\u2019 I know that I could have a wonderful time with my dreams because I had been through two years of that, but it didn\u2019t change my body. In fact, I got higher and higher into spirit, so my body became more and more exhausted.\u00a0<\/em>(Tina Stromsted, (2005).Cellular Resonance and the Sacred Feminine Marion Woodman\u2019s Story. Body and Soul, Honoring Marion Woodman, Spring A Journal of Archetype and Culture, 72. New Orleans, LN\u2019 Spring,pp.1-30. 2005,p.13)<\/p>\n What might it mean for dreams to change our body or our bodies to change our dreams? What stories do our bodies tell through their gestures and actions that are as yet untold ways of coming to know oneself? How might a curiosity about disease as symbol be a helpful way of encountering that which is, as yet, unconscious?<\/p>\n Setting out from Jung\u2019s position that \u2018I restrict myself to the observation of phenomena\u2019(Jung, \u00a7\u00a72, CW 11) we will explore ways in which psyche and matter are one and the same thing and the ways in which working from this premise informs our work.<\/p>\n Since psyche and matter are contained in one and the same world, and moreover are in continuous contact with one another and ultimately rest on irrepresentable, transcendental factors, it is not only possible but fairy probable, even, that psyche and matter are two different aspects of one and the same thing<\/em>.\u00a0On the Nature of the Psyche<\/em>, Jung, 1947, \u00a7418 CW8, Princeton Uni Press<\/p>\n \u200d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Marion Woodman, in an interview with Tina Stromsted said ~ I was in analysis, but my analyst was outraged at the thought of body movement. His attitude, was, \u2018If you can\u2019t transform your dreams there\u2019s something wrong with the way you\u2019re handling your dreams.\u2019 I know that I could have a wonderful time with my […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":17,"featured_media":95404,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","tags":[],"mec_category":[184],"mec_speaker":[779],"class_list":["post-125205","mec-events","type-mec-events","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","mec_category-lecture"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\n