ABSTRACT
My reference to imagination has made me think that, in view of the very personal and individual aspects of analytical psychology, I should acknowledge the personal aspect of my interest, first, in analytical psychology and then, later, in the marriage of Jungian analysis with the disciplines arising out of psychoanalysis. It is traditionally thought that the language of imagination, phantasy and imagery was particularly meaningful to the early analytical psychologists by contrast with the more intellectualistic if not rationalistic style of the early psychoanalysts. I think this probably appealed to me when I was young. Being Anglo-Irish I was torn unknowingly by some such dichotomy both from within and, to an extent, from the environment. The latter was an English one, in which I was exposed to a fairly traditional mode of education, attitude and manners.
