ABSTRACT
In this chapter, the author describes active imagination as a ritual space of play between the researcher and his or her work. He also outlines the two procedures for letting go of the work and his started off a discussion on what one should include of the transference material and how it might be included it in the body of the work. One enters into the transference field between oneself and the work with the sense that one no longer knows what the work is about. Indeed, the transference space is created through this act of humble submission. Drawing upon Corbin’s work, Samuels notes that like the mundus imaginalis, the transference field is an intermediate landscape between the world of sense and that of intellect. Samuels employs Corbin’s notion to suggest “that two persons, in a certain kind of relationship, may constitute, or gain access to, or be linked by, that level of reality known as the ‘mundus imaginalis.’.
