Interview with Marian Dunlea
Marian Dunlea on her book BodyDreaming
Jungian Analyst Marian Dunlea and I discuss her latest book BodyDreaming. She shares a bit of her history with Marion Woodman’s work. Dunlea has amplified Woodman's work with the body in depth psychology and applied it to the now, better than anyone in my opinion. Her work lies at the confluence of depth psychology, psychoanalysis, trauma, and somatics. For more info about her work visit mariandunlea.com.
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“In BodyDreaming we may become aware of the relativity of our ego in relation to a growing intimation of a larger consciousness or reality inclusive of the world both within and without, and find ourselves participants in a reciprocal “unified field.“ We may experience moments of recognition during which we perceive that a pearl of great price lies buried within our sensing, feeling matter and psyche. Through attending to our matter and psyche, we develop the capacity to align with a self-regulating principle and the innate drive toward wholeness that Carl Jung addresses, working toward the fulfillment of our human and spiritual potential. However, the pearl of great price is to be honed with the material from the somatic unconscious, whose depths lie in the dark ocean, and must be brought into the light of day, into consciousness through the regulatory work of attunement and regulation, before it’s luminosity may be revealed. We begin to recognize and appreciate the reciprocity that is possible between our matter in the matter that surrounds us. In conjunction with neuroscientific research, analytical psychology, developmental psychology and somatics, Bodydreaming offers a therapeutic method of working with developmental trauma and other traumas that encompass self and inner-regulation, requiring both inner and outer attunement..."
