For Love of the Imagination: Interdisciplinary Applications of Jungian Psychoanalysis

"I have entitled this book For Love of the Imagination. Long ago, I fell in love with the imagination. It was love at first sight. I have had a lifelong love affair with the imagination. I would love for others, through this book, to fall in love, as I once did, with the imagination." Michael Vannoy Adams, from the Preface. For Love of the Imagination is a book about the imagination – about what and how images mean. Jungian psychoanalysis is an imaginal psychology – or what Michael Vannoy Adams calls "imaginology," the study of the imagination. What is so distinctive – and so valuable – about Jungian psychoanalysis is that it emphasizes images.   For Love of the Imagination is also a book about interdisciplinary applications of Jungian psychoanalysis. What enables these applications is that all disciplines include images of which they are more or less unconscious. Jungian psychoanalysis is in an enviable position to render these images conscious, to specify what and how they mean.   On the contemporary scene, as a result of the digital revolution, there is no trendier word than "applications" – except, perhaps, the abbreviation "apps." In psychoanalysis, there is a "Freudian app" and a "Jungian app." The "Jungian app" is a technology of the imagination. This book applies Jungian psychoanalysis to images in a variety of disciplines. For Love of the Imagination also includes the 2011 Moscow lectures on Jungian psychoanalysis. It will be essential reading for psychoanalysts, psychotherapists, students, and those with an interest in Jung.   

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Adams, Michael Vannoy

Mental Health

Routledge

"I have entitled this book For Love of the Imagination. Long ago, I fell in love with the imagination. It was love at first sight. I have had a lifelong love affair with the imagination. I would love for others, through this book, to fall in love, as I once did, with the imagination." Michael Vannoy Adams,from the Preface. For Love of the Imaginationis a book about the imagination – about what and how images mean. Jungian psychoanalysis is an imaginal psychology – or what Michael Vannoy Adams calls "imaginology," the study of the imagination. What is so distinctive – and so valuable – about Jungian psychoanalysis is that it emphasizes images. For Love of the Imagination is also a book about interdisciplinary applications of Jungian psychoanalysis. What enables these applications is that all disciplines include images of which they are more or less unconscious. Jungian psychoanalysis is in an enviable position to render these images conscious, to specify what and how they mean. On the contemporary scene, as a result of the digital revolution, there is no trendier word than "applications" – except, perhaps, the abbreviation "apps." In psychoanalysis, there is a "Freudian app" and a "Jungian app." The "Jungian app" is a technology of the imagination. This book applies Jungian psychoanalysis to images in a variety of disciplines. For Love of the Imagination also includes the 2011 Moscow lectures on Jungian psychoanalysis. It will be essential reading for psychoanalysts, psychotherapists, students, and those with an interest in Jung.

One of the most radical discoveries of Freud and Jung is that the unconscious is "mythological – that ancient gods and goddesses, heroes and heroines, and fabulous creatures are alive and well in the psyches of modern men and women. In THE MYTHOLOGICAL UNCONSCIOUS, Michael Vannoy Adams provides numerous persuasive examples of how myths appear in contemporary dreams and fantasies, and he does so with erudition, wit, and eloquence.

The Mythological Unconscious: Second, Expanded Edition

Psychology & Counseling

Spring Publications

The Fantasy Principle: Psychoanalysis of the Imagination

The Fantasy Principle

Contemporary psychoanalysis needs less reality and more fantasy; what Michael Vannoy Adams calls the 'fantasy principle'. The Fantasy Principle radically affirms the centrality of imagination. It challenges us to exercise and explore the imagination, shows us how to value vitally important images that emerge from the unconscious, how to evoke such images, and how to engage them decisively. It shows us how to apply Jungian techniques to interpret images accurately and to experience images immediately and intimately through what Jung calls 'active imagination'. The Fantasy Principle makes a strong case for a new school of psychoanalysis - the school of 'imaginal psychology' - which emphasizes the transformative impact of images. All those who desire to give individuals an opportunity to become more imaginative will find this book fascinating reading.

What distinguishes this book from previous books on mythology and psychology is that Adams provides so many impressive examples of how myths appear in contemporary life. Adams examines the psychological significance of Oedipus, Odysseus, Hercules, the Hydra, Poseidon, Chronos, Medusa, Tezcatlipoca, the labyrinth, the Minotaur, the griffin, the unicorn, and many other mythological creatures, and concludes by presenting a dream that beautifully exemplifies the “myth of the hero.” With wit and clarity, this book brings us into the incredibly rich psychic reality of the infinitely creative human imagination. Michael Vannoy Adams declares that the ancient gods and goddesses, heroes and heroines, and fabulous creatures are alive and well within us. They exist in the mythological unconscious and emerge in the dreams and fantasies of modern men and women

The Mythological Unconscious

Other Press

The unconscious is one of the most radically original discoveries ever made. The implications are vast and revolutionary. What, however, is the unconscious? 
Some of the greatest psychoanalysts of all time declare emphatically that the unconscious is mythological. Sigmund Freud speaks of "endopsychic myths" and psycho-mythology C.G.Jung refers to "mythopoeic imagination" and the "'myth-forming' structural elements" of the psyche. Wilfred R. Bion asserts that the psyche extends into the "domain of myth". James Hillman contends that "the essence of psyche is myth" and that "psychology is ultimately mythology" 
Michael Vannoy Adams reaffirms the decisive importance of the mythological unconscious. What distinguishes this book from previous books on mythology and psychology is that Adams provides so many persuasive examples of how myths appear in contemporary dreams and fantasies, and does so with such erudition, wit, and eloquent clarity. 
Among the many mythological images that Adams discusses are Oedipus, Odysseus, Hercules, the Hydra, Poseidon, Cronos, Medusa, Narcissus, Hermes, Nike, Zeus, Pan, Tezcatlipoca, the lion, the centaur, Pegasus, the bull, the labyrinth,the Minotaur, the griffin and the unicorn. Finally he presents a dream that beautifully exemplifies the "myth of the Hero.

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For Love of the Imagination: Interdisciplinary Applications of Jungian Psychoanalysis

For Love of the Imagination: Interdisciplinary Applications of Jungian Psychoanalysis

The Mythological Unconscious: Second, Expanded Edition

The Fantasy Principle: Psychoanalysis of the Imagination

The Fantasy Principle: Psychoanalysis of the Imagination

The Mythological Unconscious

The Mythological Unconscious