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The Fantasy Principle

“Michael Vannoy Adams moves the field of psychoanalysis into the 21st

century by turning the clock back to the main discovery of Freud and

Jung: fantasy rules the psyche. The Fantasy Principle is a major serious

researched work and yet a book of imagination and humor. It is also a

book aimed beyond professional therapists, engaging everyone who is,

will be, or has been in therapy.”

James Hillman

Contemporary psychoanalysis needs less reality and more fantasy. It needs a new

principle – what Michael Vannoy Adams calls the “fantasy principle.”

Freud insists that we conform to the reality principle. He assumes that there is

only one reality and that we all define it in exactly the same way. Reality, however,

is not given. There are many “realities” and they are constructed from fantasies

that occur in us continuously. Fantasy, Adams declares, is what transforms con-

sciousness.

This book is distinctive: it radically affirms the centrality of imagination.

Adams challenges us to exercise and explore the imagination. He shows us how to

value vitally important images that emerge from the unconscious, how to evoke

such images, and how to engage them decisively. The Fantasy Principle explains

how to apply special Jungian techniques to interpret images accurately and to

experience images immediately and intimately through what Jung calls “active

imagination.”

The Fantasy Principle argues for the recognition of a new school of psycho-

analysis – the school of “imaginal psychology.” As Jung says, “Image is psyche.”

The school of imaginal psychology emphasizes the transformative impact of

images.

Michael Vannoy Adams is a Jungian psychoanalyst in New York City.

Photograph by Harry Heleotis

Michael Vannoy Adams is a Jungian psychoanalyst in New York City. He is a

founding member of and director of admissions for the Jungian Psychology

Association (JPA), a group of Jungian psychoanalysts who have developed a train-

ing program based on new models and formats of analytic learning. He is a clinical

associate professor at the New York University Postdoctoral Program in Psycho-

therapy and Psychoanalysis. He is also a faculty member at the Object Relations

Institute, the Blanton-Peale Institute, the C. G. Jung Foundation, and the New

School University, where he was formerly associate provost.

Adams is the author of two previous books: The Mythological Unconscious

(2001) and The Multicultural Imagination: “Race,” Color, and the Unconscious

(1996). He is the recipient of two Gradiva Awards from the National Association

for the Advancement of Psychoanalysis. He has been a Marshall scholar in Britain

and a Fulbright senior lecturer in India.

For information about Jungian analysis, visit Michael Vannoy Adams’s website:

www.jungnewyork.com

The Fantasy Principle

Psychoanalysis of the imagination

Michael Vannoy Adams

First published 2004 by Brunner-Routledge

27 Church Road, Hove, East Sussex, BN3 2FA

Simultaneously published in the USA and Canada

by Brunner-Routledge

29 West 35th Street, New York, NY 10001

This edition published in the Taylor & Francis e-Library, 2004.

Brunner-Routledge is an imprint of the Taylor & Francis Group

any form or by any electronic, mechanical, or other means, now known or hereafter

invented, including photocopying and recording, or in any information storage or

retrieval system, without permission in writing from the publishers.

This publication has been produced with paper manufactured to strict environmental

standards and with pulp derived from sustainable forests.

British Library Cataloguing in Publication Data

A catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library

Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Adams, Michael Vannoy, 1947–

The fantasy principle : psychoanalysis of the imagination / Michael Vannoy Adams.

p. cm.

Includes bibliographical references (p. ) and index.

ISBN 1-58391-818-3 (hbk) – ISBN 1-58391-819-1 (pbk.)

1. Jungian Psychology. 2. Imagination. I. Title.

BF173.J85A33 2004

150.19’37–dc22

2003018977

ISBN 0-203-48376-6 Master e-book ISBN

ISBN 0-203-59355-3 (Adobe eReader Format)

ISBN 1-58391-818-3 (hbk)

ISBN 1-58391-819-1 (pbk)

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