C. G. Jung and the Dead Visions, Active Imagination and the Unconscious Terrain

C. G. Jung and the Dead: Visions, Active Imagination and the Unconscious Terrain offers an in-depth look at Jung?s encounters with the dead, moving beyond a symbolic understanding to consider these figures a literal presence in the psyche. Stephani L. Stephens explores Jung?s personal experiences, demonstrating his skill at visioning in all its forms as well as detailing the nature of the dead.

This unique study is the first to follow the narrative thread of the dead from Memories, Dreams, Reflections into The Red Book, assessing Jung?s thoughts on their presence, his obligations to them, and their role in his psychological model. It offers the opportunity to examine this previously neglected theme unfolding during Jung?s period of intense confrontation with the unconscious, and to understand active imagination as Jung?s principle method of managing that unconscious content. As well as detailed analysis of Jung?s own work, the book includes a timeline of key events and case material.

C. G. Jung and the Dead will offer academics and students of Jungian and post-Jungian studies, the history of psychology, Western esoteric history and gnostic and visionary traditions a new perspective on Jung?s work. It will also be of great interest to Jungian analysts and psychotherapists, analytical psychologists and practitioners of other psychological disciplines interested in Jungian ideas.

Part One 1. Introduction 2. The Literal vs. The Symbolic 3. Jung’s Way of Seeing 4. Jung’s Primary Orientation to the Dead 5. The Big Dream 6. Death Dreams Part Two: Liber Primus 7. The Red Book 8. Intorudction to Liber Primus 9. Jung’s First Active Imagination 10. Siefgried and the Merry Garden 11. Mysterium Encounter Part Three: Liber Secundus 12. The Red One, The Tramp and Death 13. Divine Folly 14. Philemon and the Poisoner Part Four: Scrutinies 15. Scrutinies 16. Sermons 17. The End of the Red Book 18. Post Red Book Implications 19. Contemporary Context 20. Concluding Thoughts

Stephani Stephens holds a PhD from the University of Kent, Canterbury, UK, in Jungian Psychology. Between 2004 and 2013 she served on the Executive Committee of the International Association of Jungian Studies. She teaches psychology in the International Baccalaureate program and is a practicing counsellor in Canberra, Australia. She is the recipient of the 2018 Frances P. Bolton Fellowship.