A Jungian Approach to Engaging Our Creative Nature: Imagining the Source of Our Creativity

ISBN-13: 9780367184377 / Angielski / Miękka / 2019 / 210 str.

Robert Sandford

Opis

This book seeks to foster the creative imagination by nurturing a fertile relationship with its source. Sandford offers an alternative Jungian approach to embody this relationship and explores how we can engage creativity’s source on its own terms in image, metaphor, symbol, myth and dream.

Spis treści

Invocation;  Chapter 1: Clearing the Way: Literal & Metaphorical;  Chaper 2: An Ethic of Empathy: Dreams and the Creative Impulse;  Chapter 3: What Lives in the World ;  Chapter 4: Creativity and the Symbol ;  Chapter 5: The Collective Unconscious: Archetypes;  Chapter 6: The Idea of Archetypes– a Mythic Tale of Origins;  Chapter 7: Originality and Origin-ality;  Chapter 8: Logos and Creativity: Four Meditations;  Chapter 9:  Hephaistos the Twice-Born: Tales of Creative Origins;  Chapter 10: Apprentices of Fire;  Chapter 11:. The Dream-ego in the Dream, the Waking-ego in Creativity;  Benediction;  References;  Index

O autorze

Robert Sandford began his    studies in Jungian psychology and the humanities at the University of Dallas and continued through graduate studies at Duquesne University to the present. He currently works as a musician, graphic designer and teacher. His creative practice includes writing, musical composition and arranging, photography and woodworking.