Aqua vitae, aqua permanens

In response to the question 'Who is My Jung?', this paper describes the profound personal impact of Jung's creative / artistic approach to the unconscious, beginning with my discovery of The Red Book at the age of twelve. Echoing the flow of my own dream-life, I trace the course of two analyses through the alchemical process of solutio, which began with numinous dreams of tidal waves and plunged us into inter- and intra-psychic analytic relationships that evoked vestigial memories of our first aquatic world in utero

Alchemy · Art · Dream · Literature · Numinous · Psychic · Psychoanalysis · TRACE (psycholinguistics) · Unconscious mind · Jungian Analytical Psychology · Medicine · Neuroscience · Philosophy · Psychology · Psychotherapy Techniques and Applications · Religious Studies and Spiritual Practices