ABSTRACT
In the theory and lore of Jungian and archetypal psychology, imagination is an important construct, understood in a singular way. Here, imagination is not only an object or activity. It entails going deeper into the imagery of some thing, and not to cure, solve, or explain it, but “to dream the dream onward,” in Carl Jung’s classic phrase (Moore 1990, 7). For Jung, imagination is “an authentic accomplishment of thought or refl ection that does not spin aimless and groundless fantasies into the blue; that is to say, it does not merely play with its object, rather it tries to grasp the inner facts and portray them in images true to their nature. Th is activity is an opus, a work.”1
