The Intersection of Poetry and Jungian Analysis Through Metaphor

<P><I>The Intersection of Poetry and Jungian Analysis Through Metaphor: In Creation You Are Created</I> explores the relationship between Jungian psychoanalytical intervention and poetry, focusing on the emergence of metaphor, which occurs in both processes, as it happens in neuroscience and fairy tales.Metaphor is a mode of communication that forms a bridge between different experience domains through associative linkages: it refers to a subject by mentioning another for rhetorical effect. Indeed, the prominence of metaphor in Jungian therapy is a characteristic that differentiates it from other forms of treatment. That’s because metaphor—as we will see in this book—is deeply rooted in the body in two ways: It is used to organize bodily sensations cognitively and is located on the border between mind and brain. C. G. Jung uses a metaphor when he observes, in <I>Memories, Dreams, Reflections</I>: “As far as we can discern, the sole purpose of existence is to kindle a light in the darkness of mere being.”</P>