ABSTRACT
Over the years there have been many sea changes in the theoretical edifices and in the clinical practice of both psychoanalysis and analytical psychology, changes that are all too often rejected in favour of a dogmatic adherence to the gospel of our founding fathers. This chapter analyses two shifts that have been brought about by the revaluation of the image and of aesthetics in philosophy, cognitive linguistics and cognitive aesthetics. The first is the iconic turn or the return of the image in psychoanalysis. The second is the return of interest in aesthetics in analytical psychology. When the dialogue between Freud and Jung broke down so dramatically in 1913, for many years this created a barrier to any possibility of cross-fertilization between the two schools of depth psychology. For Freud, dream images are purely reproductive and therefore incapable of producing new meanings. In contrast with Freud's suspicion of images, for Jung the visual image always has primacy over the word.
