ABSTRACT

The worlds of alienation and violence will be populated with the figures, spirits, and archetypes that exist in realms that may not usually be held in human awareness. The parallel worlds or other dimensions in which these figures live out their myths and engage in their interactions, battles, loves, and deaths are usually mostly unconscious, but present themselves through dreams, myths, fairy tales, fables, synchronicities, disturbances, and symptomatic behaviours. The tools offered by process-oriented dreambody work, techniques of personification, active imagination, dream-telling and analysis, and the use of myth and fairy tales are extremely effective in penetrating the often-found barriers and resistances erected by most youth. In particular, the child or adolescent who is angry and isolated will be strongly defensive when approached through attempts at relationship. Archetypal psychology views the archetype as embodying the imaginal. Image is viewed as an expression of soul. In Jung’s confrontation with the collective unconscious he discovered a way of using creative fantasy.