ABSTRACT

In his paper “Imaginology: The Jungian Study of the Imagination,” Michael Vannoy Adams advocates that “Jungians adopt a new terminology, which I believe would be advantageous.” An image can portray or represent acting subjects, but an image cannot itself be considered an acting subject. It can be an image of a defensive attitude, but the image itself cannot be defensive. The copula syntactically separates “the ego” as sentence subject from “image” as predicate and in one and the same act semantically declares them united. Active imagination is a real event, and it depends on its being ones imagination, on they committed presence in the act of actively imagining. If one merely imagines active imagination from without and so stays an external observer, then they, the ego-image and the other image, talk and listen to each other.