Active Imagination: Confrontation with the Unconscious

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Active imagination is a technique developed by the Swiss psychologist and psychiatrist Carl Jung. He considered it the most powerful tool to access the unconscious and for achieving wholeness of personality.

Jung discovered this method between the years of 1913 and 1916, a period of disorientation and intense inner turmoil which he called his confrontation with the unconscious. He searched for a method to heal himself from within, through the power of the imagination.

Active imagination is a dialogue with different parts of yourself that live in the unconscious. In some way it is similar to dreaming, except that you are fully awake and conscious during the experience.

If we honestly want to find our own wholeness, to live our individual fate as fully as possible; if we truly want to abolish illusion on principle and find the truth of our own being, however little we like to be the way we are, then there is nothing that can help us so much in our endeavour as active imagination.

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📝 Sources

- Inner Work: Using Dreams and Active Imagination for Personal Growth by Robert A. Johnson
- Irvine, I. (2008). Jung, alchemy, and the technique of active imagination. Alchemy and Imagination.
- Jung on Active Imagination. Edited and with an Introduction by Joan Chodorow
- Encounters with the Soul: Active Imagination as developed by C.G. Jung by Barbara Hannah
- Active Imagination and Jung's Red Book
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PomC7WS7us8&t
- Active Imagination - This Jungian Life
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GUJP7XtDElg&t
- Encounters with the Soul - Barbara Hannah (discussion)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aMSy6SyAOvQ&t
- http://www.wholenesstherapy.com/public/johnson.htm

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⌛ Timestamps

0:00 Introduction
2:02 Confrontation with the Unconscious & The Red Book
4:46 Alchemy and Jung
5:39 Approaching Active Imagination
6:56 Precaution Before Starting Active Imagination
7:46 Inner Work: Active Imagination
9:21 Distinguishing Active Imagination from Passive Fantasy
9:51 Active Imagination Example: Talking with the Inner Artist
11:51 When You Think You’re Making Up Something
13:01 Active Imagination as Mythic Journey
14:10 The Four-Step Approach to Active Imagination
16:25 Step 1. Active Imagination: The Invitation
20:50 Step 2. Active Imagination: The Dialogue
25:00 Step 3. Active Imagination: The Values
27:25 Step 4. Active Imagination: The Rituals

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The Psychology of The Fool

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,The fool is one of the most relatable, intriguing and recurring figures in the world. There have been fools who have caused surprise and laughter since time immemorial. We worship folly by seeing it in people and in the world and by willingly displaying it in ourselves. It is one of the timeless archetypes, which we all inherit at birth. Many of us suffer from the absence of the fool in our lives. Frenetic and upright, we take ourselves too seriously. As William Shakespeare said, “All the world’s a stage, and all the men and women merely players.” Forgetting that playfulness is a basic human need, we wonder why we so easily become bored and exhausted, losing all capacity for spontaneity, authenticity, and passion. The antidote to this would be to give the fool archetype some space in our lives. “The soul demands your folly; not your wisdom.” - Carl Jung ⭐ Become a Patron (exclusive content): https://www.patreon.com/eternalised 📺 YouTube Member (exclusive content): https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCqos1tl0RntucGGtPXNxkkA/join 🛒 Official Merch: https://eternalised.creator-spring.com ☕ Donate a Coffee: https://ko-fi.com/eternalised 📘 PayPal: https://www.paypal.com/paypalme/eternalisedofficial 🎦 Subscribe to the official clips channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC3O94sXcoZLpoHRzxH_YcTA 📨 Subscribe with email: https://eternalisedofficial.com/subscribe 📚 My personal library: https://eternalisedofficial.com/library 🎨 Access transcript and artwork gallery: https://eternalisedofficial.com/2023/05/25/the-psychology-of-the-fool/ ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 📚 Recommended Reading ▶ In Praise of Folly https://amzn.to/436tosq ▶ King Lear https://amzn.to/3IwNkNg ▶ He: Understanding Masculine Psychology https://amzn.to/3BLnt0g ▶ Don Quixote https://amzn.to/3MKYbp7 ▶ The Idiot https://amzn.to/43d5I5J ▶ Ivan the Fool and Three Shorter Tales for Living Peaceably https://amzn.to/3OpeoBO ▶ Tarot and the Archetypal Journey: The Jungian Path from Darkness to Light https://amzn.to/45jCKms ▶ The Complete Grimms' Fairy Tales https://amzn.to/3MCUHE8 🎧 Prefer Audiobooks? Get a 30-day Audible Plus FREE trial: ▶ https://amzn.to/332zPzN ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 📺 Odysee ➔ https://odysee.com/@eternalised 📺 Rumble ➔ https://rumble.com/c/Eternalised 🐦 Twitter ➔ https://twitter.com/eternalised1 📷 Instagram ➔ https://www.instagram.com/eternalised_official 📘 Facebook ➔ https://www.facebook.com/eternalised 🎧 Podcast ➔ https://anchor.fm/eternalised ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🎶 Music used 1. Skye Cullin - Kevin MacLeod 2. Ambiment - The Ambient - Kevin MacLeod 3. Thatched Villagers - Kevin Macleod 4. Celtic Medieval Music - At the Summertide Feast - Adrian von Ziegler 5. Promising Relationship - Kevin MacLeod 6. Heartbreaking - Kevin MacLeod 7. Adrift Among Infinite Stars - Scott Buckley 8. The Long Dark - Scott Buckley 9. Mysterious Ambient Background Music - The Rake - CO.AG Music 10. Unnatural Situation - Kevin MacLeod 11. Trio for Piano Cello and Clarinet - Kevin MacLeod Support the artists: Adrian von Ziegler https://www.youtube.com/@AdrianvonZiegler Scott Buckley - https://www.scottbuckley.com.au https://www.youtube.com/c/ScottBuckley CO.AG Music https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCcavSftXHgxLBWwLDm_bNvA Kevin MacLeod - https://incompetech.com https://www.youtube.com/user/kmmusic Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0 ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 📝 Sources - See Recommended Reading List above. - Stewart, E. A. (1999). Jesus the holy fool. Rowman & Littlefield. - Kaiser, Walter (2005). "Wisdom of the Fool." New Dictionary of the History of Ideas. Horowitz, Maryanne Cline, 1945. [New York?]: Charles Scribner's Sons. pp. Vol. 4, 515–520. - Ran, F. (2007). Modern Tragicomedy and the Fool. In Clowns, Fools and Picaros. Brill. - Roudhan, N. (2021). Madness and Sanity: Wisdom of Madmen and the Wise Men Madness in the 19th century. - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8IDKTsIvBbE - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zQtP3ZHRA3Q - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=po7QCNVnIzw&t - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VwujIYi6POk - https://artistproject.metmuseum.org/perspectives/articles/2023/3/jester ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ ⌛ Timestamps (0:00) Introduction (2:00) In Praise of Folly (3:45) The Wise Fool (5:15) The Fool as Truth-Teller (6:24) Fool, Clown and Trickster (10:24) The Medieval Court Jester (13:54) The Shakespearean Fool (14:38) Parsifal: The Quest for The Holy Grail (17:47) Don Quixote (20:02) Dostoevsky’s The Idiot (22:17) The Fool as Hero (22:54) Ivan The Fool (24:50) The Fool’s Journey (Tarot) (27:57) The Number Zero in The Fool (29:32) Symbolic Transformations of The Fool in Tarot (31:42) The Fool: Precursor to Transformation (34:44) The Dark Side of The Fool (36:04) The Fool and the Child Archetype (36:45) The Fool: The Inferior Function (38:08) The Holy Fool ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ Thank you for your support. #fool #psychology #jung

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The Psychology of The Trickster

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There is perhaps no figure in literature more fascinating than the trickster, appearing in various forms in the folklore of many cultures. Trickster is witty and deceitful. He is the timeless root of all the picaresque creations of world literature, and is not reducible to one single literary entity. Trickster tales have existed since ancient times, and has been said to be at the very foundation of civilisation and culture. They belong to the oldest expressions of mankind.

Tricksters are the breakers of rules, agents of mischief, masters of deceit, and boundary crossers. He is an agent of change, and is amoral, not immoral.

Trickster is at one and the same time creator and destroyer, giver and negator, he who dupes and who is always duped himself.

Psychologically, the trickster is an archetype, part of the collective unconscious. Trickster is everywhere, he is an eternal state of mind.

The integration of the trickster archetype allows us to go from being ruled by our own self-centred ego to a new way of living, in which one has integrity and relatedness. It allows us to become aware of our true emotions, behaviours, and thoughts, that our unconscious persona is hiding, and without which there is no individuation at all.

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- Lock, H. (2002). Transformations of the Trickster. Southern Cross Review, 18, 1-8.- Azaria, T. (2015). Trickster: Archetype of changing times. Depth Insights, 8, 29-33.
- C.G. Jung, C.W. Vol. 9 Part I: The Archetypes and The Collective Unconscious
- Radin, P., Kerényi, K., & Jung, C. G. (1972). The trickster: A study in American Indian mythology (Vol. 351). Schocken.
- Hyde, L. (1997). Trickster makes this world: Mischief, myth, and art. Macmillan.
- Stefanova, A. (2012). Humour Theories and the Archetype of the Trickster in Folklore: An Analytical Psychology Point of View. Folklore (14060957), 50.
- Den Uijl, S. (2010). The trickster “archetype” in the Shahnama. Iranian Studies, 43(1), 71-90.
- Episode 092 – Trickster – This Jungian Lifehttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ckpZcjeNd3E&t
- Encountering the Trickster – with David Richo Ph.D.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vOKMmF88YRE

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⌛ Timestamps

0:00 Introduction
0:45 What is The Trickster?
2:35 Primitive Form of The Trickster
3:48 Trickster and Laughter
5:50 Trickster as Agent of Change
7:35 Trickster as Creator and Destroyer
9:40 Trickster as Amoral
10:50 Trickster Figures
17:32 The Psychology of The Trickster
22:10 Trickster and Shadow
24:04 Trickster and Ego Inflation
26:15 The Trickster in Alchemy
29:08 Conclusion

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The Psychology of The Trickster

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,There is perhaps no figure in literature more fascinating than the trickster, appearing in various forms in the folklore of many cultures. Trickster is witty and deceitful. He is the timeless root of all the picaresque creations of world literature, and is not reducible to one single literary entity. Trickster tales have existed since ancient times, and has been said to be at the very foundation of civilisation and culture. They belong to the oldest expressions of mankind. Tricksters are the breakers of rules, agents of mischief, masters of deceit, and boundary crossers. He is an agent of change, and is amoral, not immoral. Trickster is at one and the same time creator and destroyer, giver and negator, he who dupes and who is always duped himself. Psychologically, the trickster is an archetype, part of the collective unconscious. Trickster is everywhere, he is an eternal state of mind. The integration of the trickster archetype allows us to go from being ruled by our own self-centred ego to a new way of living, in which one has integrity and relatedness. It allows us to become aware of our true emotions, behaviours, and thoughts, that our unconscious persona is hiding, and without which there is no individuation at all. ⭐ Support this channel: https://www.patreon.com/eternalised 📺 YouTube Member Perks: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCqos1tl0RntucGGtPXNxkkA/join ☕ Donate a Coffee: https://ko-fi.com/eternalised 📘 PayPal https://www.paypal.com/paypalme/eternalisedofficial🛒 Official Merch: https://eternalised.creator-spring.com 🎨 Access transcript and artwork gallery: https://eternalisedofficial.com/2022/09/16/the-psychology-of-the-trickster ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 📚 Recommended Reading ▶ The Trickster – Paul Radin, Kerényi, and Jung https://amzn.to/3eTz3OK ▶ Trickster Makes This World: Mischief, Myth, and Art – Lewis Hyde https://amzn.to/3xr54Uu 🎧 Prefer Audiobooks? Get a 30-day Audible Plus FREE trial: ▶ https://amzn.to/332zPzN ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 📱 Discord ➔ https://discord.io/eternalised 🐦 Twitter ➔ https://twitter.com/eternalised1 📘 Facebook ➔ https://www.facebook.com/eternalised 📷 Instagram ➔ https://www.instagram.com/eternalised_official 🎧 Podcast ➔ https://anchor.fm/eternalised ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🎶 Music used 1. Relent – Kevin MacLeod 2. Air Prelude – Kevin MacLeod 3. Mysterious Ambient Background Music – The Rake – CO.AG Music 4. Smoother Move – Kevin MacLeod 5. Cryptic Sorrow – Kevin MacLeod 6. Dark Ambient Background Music – The Lost – CO.AG Music 7. Heartbreaking – Kevin MacLeod 8. Charms – Waves – Sergey Cheremisinov Support the artists: CO.AG Music https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCcavSftXHgxLBWwLDm_bNvA Sergey Cheremisinov - https://www.s-cheremisinov.com https://www.youtube.com/c/SergeyCheremisinov Kevin MacLeod - https://incompetech.com https://www.youtube.com/user/kmmusic Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0 ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 📝 Sources - Lock, H. (2002). Transformations of the Trickster. Southern Cross Review, 18, 1-8.- Azaria, T. (2015). Trickster: Archetype of changing times. Depth Insights, 8, 29-33. - C.G. Jung, C.W. Vol. 9 Part I: The Archetypes and The Collective Unconscious - Radin, P., Kerényi, K., & Jung, C. G. (1972). The trickster: A study in American Indian mythology (Vol. 351). Schocken. - Hyde, L. (1997). Trickster makes this world: Mischief, myth, and art. Macmillan. - Stefanova, A. (2012). Humour Theories and the Archetype of the Trickster in Folklore: An Analytical Psychology Point of View. Folklore (14060957), 50. - Den Uijl, S. (2010). The trickster “archetype” in the Shahnama. Iranian Studies, 43(1), 71-90. - Episode 092 – Trickster – This Jungian Lifehttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ckpZcjeNd3E&t - Encountering the Trickster – with David Richo Ph.D.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vOKMmF88YRE ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ ⌛ Timestamps 0:00 Introduction 0:45 What is The Trickster? 2:35 Primitive Form of The Trickster 3:48 Trickster and Laughter 5:50 Trickster as Agent of Change 7:35 Trickster as Creator and Destroyer 9:40 Trickster as Amoral 10:50 Trickster Figures 17:32 The Psychology of The Trickster 22:10 Trickster and Shadow 24:04 Trickster and Ego Inflation 26:15 The Trickster in Alchemy 29:08 Conclusion ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ As an Amazon Associate, I earn from qualifying purchases at no additional cost to you. Thanks for watching! #trickster #psychology #jung