Monday, May 3, 2010

Andrew Samuels and the mundus imaginalis

Thanks to David Tacey for alerting me to the fact that Andrew Samuels makes use of Corbin's idea of the mundus imaginalis in psychotherapeutic theory, following in some sense James Hillman's lead. See:

Samuels, A. (1985). 'Countertransference, the 'Mundus Imaginalis' and A Research Project, Journal of Analytical Psychology 30 (1), pp. 47–71.

Tacey writes: "This also seems to appear as Chapter 9 in his remarkable book, The Plural Psyche (1989).  I think you will see that these pieces secularize and broaden Corbin's concept of mundus imaginalis, to such an extent that Corbin would no longer recognize it." His comments seem accurate to me.

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