Robert Bosnak

Background

About Robert Bosnak

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Embodied_imagination Introduction to embodied imagination EMBODIED IMAGINATION is a therapeutic and creative form of working with dreams and memories pioneered by Dutch Jungian psychoanalyst Robert Bosnak[1][2] and based on principles first developed by Swiss psychiatrist Carl Jung, especially in his work on alchemy[3], and on the work of American archetypal psychologist James Hillman, who focused on soul as a simultaneous multiplicity of autonomous states.[4] The technique of embodied imagination takes dreaming as the paradigm for all work with images. While dreaming, everyone experiences dreams as embodied events in time and space; that is, the dreamer is convinced that he or she is experiencing a real event in a real environment. Bosnak describes how a dream “instantaneously presents a total world, so real that you are convinced you are awake. You don’t just think so, you know it in the same way you now know you are awake reading this book.”[5] So from the perspective of dreaming, the image is a place, an environment in which we find ourselves.[6] Based on this notion, the dreamer can re-enter the landscape of the dream and flash back into its images to more fully and deeply explore and experience them.