Jung did not keep his discoveries secret in order to take advantage: he taught many of his patients that dialogue with the unconscious called by him "active imagination".
The principle of this attitude is to let it come to itself all that emerges from the unconscious emotions, feelings, fantasies, thoughts, haunting, dreamlike images in the waking state, excluding the critical attention, and to compare with them as with objective presence. These elements often use language that pathetic, "a hellish mix of sublime and ridiculous." Most often is conscious at first shocked and he is tempted to reject any such nonsense. It may also be aware of that tension makes born of anguish: "nothing comes", or that we go too deep into the unconscious and that we fell asleep. The confrontation with the unconscious vigil is the essence of active imagination. She asked an ethical attitude towards internal phenomena. Without such an attitude, you succumb to the principle of power and imagination becomes destructive to oneself and others. It becomes a kind of black magic. The fantasies can take the form of written accounts, drawings, paintings or (more rarely) dances. The text chat is the most differentiated one which, in most cases, leads the furthest.
Marie-Louise von Franz
CG Jung, His Myth in Our Time
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