Sven Doehner
Jungian Archetypal
Transpersonal Psychoanalyst
Alchemical Psychology:A Science of the Imagination
Alchemical Psychology is a "Science of the Imagination"
because it recognizes the role that The IMAGINATION
plays in all processes of deep and lasting transformation.
because it recognizes the role that The IMAGINATION
plays in all processes of deep and lasting transformation.
C.G. Jung showed us how The Imagination is not merely a
faculty for make-believe, but a crucial organ of the psyche,
the one that, in fact, gives form to all life experiences.
faculty for make-believe, but a crucial organ of the psyche,
the one that, in fact, gives form to all life experiences.
By way of practices such as Dream-Work, Journaling,
Artistic Expression, Active Imagination, and Vocal
Sound-work – involving both developing and exercising
LISTENING skills, and VOICE work – individuals
can learn how to engage their Unconscious in ways
that are both imaginative and transformative.
Artistic Expression, Active Imagination, and Vocal
Sound-work – involving both developing and exercising
LISTENING skills, and VOICE work – individuals
can learn how to engage their Unconscious in ways
that are both imaginative and transformative.
We want to learn how to “cook” our images in ways that
alchemically transform the psyche from within, converting
challenges and difficulties into opportunities for genuine
psychological and spiritual health and growth.
alchemically transform the psyche from within, converting
challenges and difficulties into opportunities for genuine
psychological and spiritual health and growth.
Method of transformation called:
A SOUND IMAGINATION
My experience, after a bit more than 43 years of clinical work,
as both a Jungian Archetypal Psychoanalyst and as an Educator
(teaching theory and supervising the practice of others), and as
a Guide of Retreat Experiences … my work has clearly become
a psychological/spiritual METHOD for genuinely deep and
lasting transformation, whose results speak for themselves.
Nowadays, I feel more motivated than ever to share what I
can of what in Alchemy is called “the work”. It truly inspires
me to see how my theoretical and practical experience can
take on new life in the lives of others.
The Method is called “A Sound Imagination” – because the
fundamental work is with both the Imagination … and with
Sound, particularly the sound of the Human VOICE.
Additionally, beyond being something that we hear and emit,
the word sound implies both Health and Wholeness.
as both a Jungian Archetypal Psychoanalyst and as an Educator
(teaching theory and supervising the practice of others), and as
a Guide of Retreat Experiences … my work has clearly become
a psychological/spiritual METHOD for genuinely deep and
lasting transformation, whose results speak for themselves.
Nowadays, I feel more motivated than ever to share what I
can of what in Alchemy is called “the work”. It truly inspires
me to see how my theoretical and practical experience can
take on new life in the lives of others.
The Method is called “A Sound Imagination” – because the
fundamental work is with both the Imagination … and with
Sound, particularly the sound of the Human VOICE.
Additionally, beyond being something that we hear and emit,
the word sound implies both Health and Wholeness.
Imagination
"By ‘image’ I mean a psychic reality expressed in any form at
all – whether dream, fantasy, memory, idea, or perception.
Image is the primary datum of psychic life, and the psyche
is nothing but a continual self-presentation in images."
James Hillman, Re-Visioning Psychology
Sound
“Dissolve that which is Coagulated … <br and Coagulate that which is Dissolved”. <br <br Alchemical Maxim
Ethos
Einstein is known to have said that insanity is doing the same
thing over and over again expecting to get different results.
For some reason, we often insist on repeating the same old
thing, again and again, as if we were addicted to the negative
side of our complexes.
The work of transformation inevitably involves making a
great effort to go against our natural – in the sense of habitual –
ways of going about things. We can only know how we do
NOT want to proceed.
thing over and over again expecting to get different results.
For some reason, we often insist on repeating the same old
thing, again and again, as if we were addicted to the negative
side of our complexes.
The work of transformation inevitably involves making a
great effort to go against our natural – in the sense of habitual –
ways of going about things. We can only know how we do
NOT want to proceed.
Alchemy
The true “Opus Contra Naturam” is a “Vía Negativa”.
Alchemical Maxim
Ancestral Wisdom
In a world increasingly dominated by the quantifiable and the
digital, Ancestral Healing and Spiritual teachings and practices
offer a vital counterpoint, reminding us that reality is far more
than what can be measured or superficially observed.
