ABSTRACT
In this chapter, the author focuses on the interior spatial metaphors used in Jung’s technique of active imagination and in Desoille’s Rêve éveillé dirigé. Both Jung and Desoille used specific internal spatial language and tropes when engaging in their waking-dream techniques. The American Professor of Geography Denis Cosgrove refers to this shift as a “spatial turn” while the French philosopher Michel Foucault, in a lecture given in 1967, argues how the great obsession of the nineteenth century with history and its temporal stages of development have given way to “the epoch of space”. In fact, in both methods there is a dialectical movement between interior and exterior, secrecy and revelation, image and word, aloneness and presence. However, at times, interiority has been idealised in the case of Jung’s active imagination and literalised in the case of Desoille to the extent that it has limited the development of both techniques from further developing and updating with the times.
