Imagination as Space of Freedom

by Verena Kast

Book Overview

The imagination has long been employed as a therapeutic tool, as imaginings help us understand our unconscious fears and desires. Typically, these are what we might call passive imaginings, in which fantasies arise that may be subsequently interpreted. Carl Jung radically developed this concept further by introducing Active Imagination, a process by which the creative powers of the unconscious produce images which are then addressed by the ego. This...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0880642076
• ISBN13: 9780880642071
• Release Date: January 1994
• Publisher: Froom Intl Pub
• Weight: 1.20 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.4" x 8.2"