ABSTRACT
Chapter 6 considers imagination and the imaginal, which are processes for engaging with the unconscious. A brief consideration of the history of imagination, symbolic thinking, and the difference between imagination and fantasy are included. This chapter looks at imagination as a pathway into a noetic state of consciousness. Jungian art therapy accesses the imaginal as a real space in the psyche and facilitates a working relationship with the analyst/analysand to capture and express the voice of the soul in the art making process and products. The examples provided explore how imagination becomes known, how it can be dismissed, and how, when we have an attitude of amor fati, the door to the imagination opens wide, which allows us to discover the treasure of making ourselves whole.
