title: What is a Jungian analyst dreaming when myth comes to mind? Thirdness as an aspect of the anima media natura.
abstract: Listening analytically is not listening just to what is said but listening to what is just below the surface waiting to be said. This paper looks at Jung's insight into a 'third thing' being created intra-psychically and within the analytic encounter. Ogden's concept of an 'analytic third' is used to describe the clinical aspects of this thirdness. This paper explores: how the state of thirdness is created and accessed through use of reverie and associative dreaming; how the material emerging from it is used in a from or about manner; and the eventual fate of the third in a successful analysis by a reexamination of plates four and ten of the Rosarium. The focus is particularly on the awareness and possible meanings of mythological motifs appearing in the mind of the analyst while in session. Thirdness can be viewed as the interpersonal aspect of the anima media natura and functions in a way that informs us of permeability in and between individuals, while the operation of the anima mundi means that there is always an inseparability of the individual with the world.
authors.affiliation: Chicago.
authors.forename: August J
authors.initials: AJ
authors.lastname: Cwik
mesh_terms: D006801:Humans; D007602:Jungian Theory; D011369:Professional-Patient Relations; D011575:Psychoanalytic Therapy / Q000379:methods*
keywords: Aktive Imagination; Anima mundi; Reverie, Abtretung; active imagination; analytic mindfulness; analytic third; analytische Aufmerksamkeit; analytisches Drittes; anima mundi; arrendersi; assetto analitico; associative dreaming; assoziatives Träumen; conscience analytique; entrega; imaginación active; imagination active; immaginazione attiva; le « rêver » associatif; mindfulness analítica; reverie; rêverie; s'abandonner.; sognare in analisi; sueños asociativos; surrender; tercero analítico; terzo analitico; tiers analytique; активное воображение; аналитическая вдумчивость; аналитический третий; ассоциативное мечтание; грезы; поддаваться.; 分析性的正念; 分析性的第三; 幻想; 投降.; 积极想象; 联想性的梦; 阿尼玛世界