Imaginal Action: Towards a Jungian Conception of Enactment, and an Extraverted Counterpart to Active Imagination

This theoretical paper considers the fashion in which Jung's psychology radically challenges modern assumptions concerning the nature of subjectivity. With an eye for the clinical implications of Jung's late work, the author introduces the idea of imaginal action. In order to explain what...

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Published in:	Journal of analytical psychology Vol. 63; no. 2; pp. 186 - 206
Main Author:	Brown, Robin S.
Format:	Journal Article
Language:	English
Published:	England Wiley Subscription Services, Inc 01.04.2018
Subjects:	Accentuation Action active imagination Agieren Aktive Imagination Analytical psychology Bias Courts Enactment Humans imaginación activa Imagination imagination active immaginazione attiva Introversion introversion and extraversion introversion et extraversion Introversion und Extraversion introversione ed estroversione introversión y extraversión Jungian Theory mise en acte/mise en scène psicoanalisi psicoanálisis psicologia transpersonale psicología transpersonal psychanalyse Psychoanalyse Psychoanalysis Psychoanalytic Therapy psychologie transpersonnelle Psychology sincronicidad soincronicità Subjectivity synchronicity synchronicité Synchronizität Transgender persons Transpersonal psychology Transpersonale Psychologie Worldview Writers активное воображение интроверсия и экстраверсия психоанализ разыгрывание синхронистичность трансперсональная психология 共时性内倾和外倾积极想象精神分析行动化超个人心理学 synchronicity introversion and extraversion transpersonal psychology enactment active imagination psychoanalysis sincronicidad Synchronizität psicologia transpersonale introversión y extraversión психоанализ Introversion und Extraversion psychologie transpersonnelle Transpersonale Psychologie psicoanálisis psychanalyse synchronicité 超个人心理学 Agieren Psychoanalyse интроверсия и экстраверсия introversione ed estroversione mise en acte/mise en scène синхронистичность 共时性 psicoanalisi разыгрывание Aktive Imagination imaginación activa introversion et extraversion активное воображение 精神分析 imagination active immaginazione attiva psicología transpersonal 行动化 трансперсональная психология soincronicità 积极想象内倾和外倾
ISSN:	0021-8774, 1468-5922, 1468-5922
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Summary:	This theoretical paper considers the fashion in which Jung's psychology radically challenges modern assumptions concerning the nature of subjectivity. With an eye for the clinical implications of Jung's late work, the author introduces the idea of imaginal action. In order to explain what is meant by this, the paper begins by exploring how Jung's thinking demonstrates an underlying bias towards introversion. It is argued that while Jung's interest in synchronicity ultimately resulted in his developing a worldview that might address the introverted biases of his psychology, the clinical implications of this shift have not been sufficiently clarified. With reference to some short examples from experience, the author outlines a conception of relational synchronicity wherein the intrapsychic emerges non-projectively within the interpersonal field itself. Comparing and contrasting these occurrences to the more introverted practice of active imagination, it is claimed that such a notion is implicit in Jung's work and is needed as a corrective to his emphasis on interiority. The author suggests that imaginal action might be conceived as a distinctly Jungian approach to the psychoanalytic notion of enactment. It is also shown how the idea outlined might find further support from recent developments in the field of transpersonal psychology.
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ISSN:	0021-8774 1468-5922 1468-5922
DOI:	10.1111/1468-5922.12393