Embodied imagination
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Technique
The technique of embodied imagination takes dreaming as the paradigm for all work with images. While dreaming, everyone experiences dreams as embodied events in time and space; that is, the dreamer is convinced that he or she is experiencing a real event in a real environment. Bosnak describes how a dream "instantaneously presents a total world, so real that you are convinced you are awake. You don't just think so, you Template:Em it in the same way you now know you are awake reading this book."[5] So from the perspective of dreaming, the image is a place.[6] Drawing upon Carl Jung's realization that "the ego complex is not the only complex in the psyche," Hillman described the psyche to be not a singular unified whole defined by the ego point of view, but rather a self-organizing multiplicity of autonomous selves.[7]
See also
- Active imagination
- Alchemy
- Archetypal psychology
- Contemporary dream interpretation
- Divine embodiment
- James Hillman
- Polytheistic myth as psychology
References
Notes
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Further reading
- Bosnak, Robert. (October 2003). Embodied imagination, Journal of Contemporary Psychoanalysis, Volume 39, Number 4.
- Bosnak, Robert. (2007). Embodiment: Creative imagination in medicine, art and travel. London: Routledge.
- Bosnak, Robert. (Spring 2006). Sulphur dreaming. Spring: A Journal of Archetype and Culture, Volume 74, pp. 91–106.
- Bromberg, Philip M. (October 2003). On being one's dream: Some reflections on Robert Bosnak's "Embodied imagination." Journal of Contemporary Psychoanalysis, Volume 39, Number 4.
- Corbin, Henry. (1972). Mundus imaginalis, or the Imaginary and the Imaginal (Ruth Horine, Trans.). Spring: An Annual of Archetypal Psychology and Jungian Thought, pp. 1–19.
- Hillman, James. (1975). Re-visioning psychology. New York: Harper and Row.
- Schwartz-Salant, Nathan, Ed. (1995). Jung on alchemy, Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press.
- Sonenberg, Janet. (2003). Dreamwork for actors. London/New York: Routledge.
- White, Judy and Jill Fischer. Embodied Imagination® in Barrett, Diedre and McNamara, Patrick, editors. Encyclopedia of Sleep and Dreams [2 volumes]: The Evolution, Function, Nature, and Mysteries of Slumber, Greenwood, 2012.