Imagination in Jungian Psychology with Michael Vannoy Adams

For me, psychotherapy is essentially an affair of images – of how we imagine and, more important, reimagine ourselves. Michael Vannoy Adams

In this episode of the podcast I am speaking with Michael Vannoy Adams about Imagination in Jungian Psychology. We start with William Blake “The Imagination is not a State: it is the Human Existence itself”. Amongst other things we talk about imaginary/imaginal, images and imagination as essential to Jungian Psychology, some of our religious history with regards to images (monotheism and the prohibition against images). Imagery as tantamount to idolatry. Then we talk about Jung and Hillman images and images from dreams.

Michael Vannoy Adams is a Jungian psychoanalyst in New York City. Adams defines Jungian psychology as an imaginal psychology, which emphasizes images and the imagination. He is a clinical associate professor at the New York University Postdoctoral Program in Psychotherapy and Psychoanalysis, where he is the only Jungian analyst on the faculty and is the originator of the course “Jungian Ways of Working with Images.” He is the author of four books, three of which include the word “imagination” in either the title or subtitle. The most recent is For Love of the Imagination.

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