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No. 57 (2023)

Dreaming bodies: Sensory rêveries in the light of dialogue between analytical psychology and neuroscience

DOI
https://doi.org/10.3280/jun57-2023oa14890
Submitted
November 7, 2022
Published
2023-07-24

Abstract

The article explores some aspects of the clinic of trauma in their intersections between the Jungian theory, neuroscience, and recent discoveries on the role of the affects in intersubjectivity. Traditionally psychoanalysis has placed emphasis on words, interpretations, giving meaning, but recently there is a greater reflection on the affective aspects, relational and embodied in the therapeutic work and how these relate to the early interactive traumatic experience that takes place outside human awareness. Some of the ways in which knowledge of particular connectivity systems informs understanding of the entire mind-brain-body relationship are also considered. The authors, in presenting a fragment of clinical experience, highlight some reflections on the phenomena body-mind and sensory rêverie that occur in the analytical session, trying to observe them with a double interdisciplinary lens that makes it possible to make thinkable the “brain-body-mind in relation” described by neuroscience and by Jung in complex analytical psychology through the role of affectivity as representation organizer and their emergence into consciousness.

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