Jung on Active Imagination .

Edited by Joan Chodorow .

Review.

While Memories, Dreams, Reflections and The Red Book offer examples of Carl Jung’s personal practice of active imagination, this text — Jung on Active Imagination, edited by Joan Chodorow — tends to focus more on the theory behind active imagination and its use in the psychotherapeutic setting. It will be of special interest to clinicians, as well as to more advanced practitioners of active imagination.

Drawn from Jung’s Collected Works and letters, this anthology also contains an excerpt from Memories Dream Reflections. It spends significant time on the use of painting as a form of active imagination, in contrast to the dialogic approach emphasized in books like Inner Work.

Chodorow’s introduction to the text serves as a good overview of active imagination, generally, and her bibliography may be helpful to clinicians and other researchers.

Many fundamental concepts of Jung’s analytical psychology come from his experiences with active imagination. For example, the Shadow, the Syzygy (Anima and Animus), the Persona, the Ego, and the Self are concepts, but they are at the same time personifications of the different structures and functions of the psyche

— Chodorow’s introduction to Jung on Active Imagination p. 3

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