ABSTRACT
The spirituality that comes about through analysis leans on this realization and the experience of the self. The images and symbols generated by the unconscious in dreams and fantasies echo memories of lost religious worlds. These intimations were tellingly represented in the founder's psychoanalytic working spaces. Analysis opens the window to powerful psychic figures and forces, which display this kind of power and ambiguity. Spirituality in the context of psychoanalysis is consequently a high-risk venture into the unknown, entering into the waters of the unconscious and opening us to the other side of our walled-in psychic containers. The type of spirituality that arises in analysis is spontaneous, surprising, and almost always contrary to the ego's limited attitudes and expectations. Applied to spirituality, the equivalent to positive liberty is the type of spirituality that is taught in spiritual traditions, which is grounded therefore in the certainties of dogma and traditional practices.
