Active imagination is Jung’s primary technique for directly engaging the unconscious, allowing autonomous unconscious contents to manifest while maintaining conscious awareness to observe and interact with them. It is neither passive fantasy where ego directs the narrative nor dissociation where ego loses control. It is active participation in unconscious process while maintaining the boundary between conscious and unconscious. You invite unconscious contents to appear as images, figures, or scenarios. You observe them without controlling them. You dialogue with them. You allow the drama to unfold. Through this process, unconscious contents become conscious, not through interpretation but through direct experience and...