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"Jung performed an important service, however, by showing that it is possible to relate to these contents, instead of repressing them, thus neutralizing their negative effects quite considerably. This can be done through the technique of meditation that is called active imagination. In this method the conscious ego permits the unconscious contents to come into the field of consciousness as fantasy images, as objectively as possible, and then enters into dialogue with them as with an autonomous vis-à-vis." Marie-Louise von Franz, Projection and Recollection in Jungian Psychology.

"Jung found that active imagination was practically the only possibility for assimilating the fourth function. He discovered that after having assimilated three functions, he couldn’t get on with his inferior function, and he began to play – to give his inferior function an expression through symbolic play." Marie-Louise von Franz, Psychotherapy