Addressing the intersection between analytical psychology and neuroscience, this book applies the science of memory reconsolidation to Jungian methods of dream interpretation to reexamine Carl Jungs vision of archetypes and the collective unconscious.
Writing from the perspective of depth and clinical psychology, the author explores how dreams and dreamwork promote neuroplastic changes in the brain, arguing that by developing a relationship with dreams, memories evolve into new emotional experiences. Chapters analyze several dream series through Jungian dream interpretation and connect to several core themes in analytical psychology research, including archetypes, complexes, cultural complexes, and the concept of the "other," using both the authors own dreams and those of others. Chapters thereby provide concrete illustrations of the neuroscience process of memory reconsolidation concerning Jungian dream interpretation, affecting debate within the two academic fields.
Ultimately contributing new scholarship for those interested in mapping the human brain by understanding the neurobiology of dreams, the book will be of use to scholars, researchers, and postgraduate students in Jungian and analytical psychology, depth psychology, and sleep and dreaming studies.
Preface
Acknowledgements
Introduction
Part 1: Accessing the Dream
1. Jung, Analytical Psychology, Neuroscience, and Interpersonal Neurobiology:
Reengaging complex theory
2. The Neuroscience of the Dreams Journey: Affects, Memories, and Predictive
Coding
3. Metacognition, Top-Down Processing, and Memory Reconsolidation
Part 2: The Dream Series
4. Prodromal Dreams and Disease: The Self Archetype and the Symbol of
Pharmakon
5. Interoception, Hemispherization, and the Anima
6. Father Archetype: Fear and Related Complexes
7. Abandonment, Pain, and Grief: Archetypes of the Other and the Orphan
8. The Cultural Historical Dimension of the Collective Unconscious:
Destabilizing Microaggressions that Construct Identity
Part 3: Conclusions
9. Consilience
10. Conclusion
Chronology
John A. Valenzuela is a licensed clinical psychologist in the United States. He has taught at the graduate level at both Pacifica and Antioch University, USA, and presented the topics of interpersonal neurobiology and Jungian psychology at the International Association of Dream Studies and the Jungian Society of Scholarly Studies conferences.
