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Imagining with the body in analytical psychology. Movement as active imagination: an interdisciplinary perspective from philosophy and neuroscience
Author(s) -
Deligiannis Ana
Publication year - 2018
Publication title -
journal of analytical psychology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.285
H-Index - 23
eISSN - 1468-5922
pISSN - 0021-8774
DOI - 10.1111/1468-5922.12392
Subject(s) - embodied cognition , body schema , creativity , perspective (graphical) , psychology , cognitive science , cognition , schema (genetic algorithms) , relation (database) , phenomenology (philosophy) , cognitive psychology , epistemology , neuroscience , philosophy , social psychology , art , perception , machine learning , computer science , visual arts , database
This article explores how the body and imagination operate as pathways of knowledge through the use of Movement as Active Imagination in clinical practice. This method activates the transcendent function, thus encouraging new therapeutic responses. A philosophical perspective (Spinoza, Nietzsche, Merleau‐Ponty) and some concepts from neuroscience (embodied cognition, somatic markers, image schema, mirror neurons, neuronal plasticity) will accompany us throughout this work, illustrated with a clinical vignette. Three levels of integration: 1) body, 2) body‐emotion, 3) body‐emotion‐imagination are proposed: these mark a progressive sense of articulation and complexity. Finally the relation between creativity and neuronal plasticity will be considered.