Jung's Technique of Active Imagination and Desoille's Directed Waking Dream Method: Bridging the Divide

ISBN-13: 9781138318700 / Angielski / Twarda / 2020 / 216 str.

Laner Cassar

Opis

Jung's Technique of Active Imagination and Desoille's Directed Waking Dream Method brings together Carl Jung’s active imagination and Robert Desoille’s "rêve éveillé dirigé/directed waking dream" method (RED).

Spis treści

Part 1.  Active Imagination and the Directed Waking Dream.  1. Active Imagination.  2. Robert Desoille and the Directed Walking Dream Method.  3. Post-Jungian Developments on Active Imagination.  4. Post-Desoillian Developments on the Directed Waking Dream Method.  5. Jungians and the Directed Waking Dream: Orthodox and Unorthodox Perspectives.  Part II Jung and Desoille – a Historical Investigation.  6. Theoretical Influences on Jung and Desoille.  7. Jung and Desoille: Sharing Common Colleagues.  8. Unacknowledged European Imaginative Therapeutic Practitioners.  9. Jungians Bridging Differences with Desoillians.  Part III.  Comparing RED and Active Imagination.  10. The Concept of Interiority and its Development in Western Europe.  11. On spatial metaphors of interiority.  12. Conceptualising A Theoretical Comparison of RED and Active Imagination.  13. A Theoretical Comparison of RED and Active Imagination: Getting Started, Preparation of the Body and Directivity by the Analyst.  14. A Theoretical Comparison of RED and Active Imagination: Transferential issues, Narrative style and Interpretation in the Middle and Final Phase of Treatment. Conclusion. Bibliography. Appendix: Bibliographical Details of Robert Desoille.

O autorze

Laner Cassar is a clinical psychologist, Jungian analyst and Gestalt psychotherapist from Malta. He holds a Ph.D in psychoanalytic studies from the Centre of Psychoanalytic Studies at the University of Essex, UK. He is president of the Malta Jungian Developing Group (I.A.A.P.) and the International Network for the Study of Waking Dream Therapy (I.N.S.W.D.T.).