ABSTRACT
This chapter posits that our unconscious hopes and dreams, our goals and ends, pull us toward our destiny and highlights how we unconsciously anticipate and rehearse for that future. From objects of fate, we become agentic subjects, creators of our destiny, of our futures. Indeed, this chapter suggests that this goal represents an additional layer of meaning to Benjamin’s call, “where objects were, subjects must be.” The prospective function, an idea first introduced by Jung, does not mean prophetic, but rather it means that we unconsciously “look forward” to, anticipate, envision, and construct future possibilities. Two clinical tales are presented to bring the theoretical conceptualizations to life.
