ABSTRACT
The psychologist, Carl Gustav Jung, was born on July 26, 1875, at Kesswil on Lake Constance in Switzerland. Jung was a firm believer in the self-regulating nature of the psyche, indeed he considered it to be a basic law of psychic functioning. The process of active imagination involves giving some kind of expression to unconscious content–be it in the form of inner visualisation, artwork, writing, or dance–and then personifying that expression in some way, as if it were an autonomous being somehow separate from oneself, before entering into a dialectical exchange with that "other". The first step in the process of active imagination is to elicit the unconscious counter-position in the form of an image. Jung first articulated the process of active imagination in his essay "The Transcendent Function," written in 1916, the same year in which he recorded the last of his fantasies contained in The Red Book.
