Jung's Technique of Active Imagination and Desoille's Directed Waking Dream Method brings together Carl Jungs active imagination and Robert Desoilles "rźve éveillé dirigé/directed waking dream" method (RED). It studies the historical development of these approaches in Central Europe in the first half of the 20th century and explores their theoretical similarities and differences, proposing an integrated framework of clinical practice.
The book aims to study the wider European context of the 1900s which influenced the development of both Jungs and Desoilles methods. This work compares the spatial metaphors of interiority used by both Jung and Desoille to describe the traditional concept of inner psychic space in the waking dreams of Jungs active imagination and Desoilles RED. It also attempts a broader theoretical comparison between the procedural aspects of both RED and active imagination by identifying commonalities and divergences between the two approaches.
This book is a unique contribution to analytical psychology and will be of great interest for academics, researchers and post-graduate students interested in the use of imagination and mental imagery in analysis, psychotherapy and counselling. The books historical focus will be of particular relevance to Jungian and Desoillian scholars since it is the first of its kind to trace the connections between the two schools and it gives a detailed account of Desoilles early life and his first written works.
This book was a Gradiva Award nominee for 2021.
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.
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.).
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