The alchemy of image: A path from darkness to light.

摘要

This production thesis utilizes creative and heuristic approaches in proposing the efficacy of utilizing imagery from the unconscious as a therapeutic means of healing. Influenced by Carl G. Jung, James Hillman, Erich Neumann, and other pioneers in the field of depth psychology, the author presents her personal experience and demonstrates how her journey through personal trauma was transformed by accessing her inner realm. The production, an original painting presented in the thesis, demonstrates the evolution of a symbolic language which developed over a lifetime of such inner dialogue.