1st Edition

Dreams, Jung, and Memory Reconsolidation Consilience with Interpersonal Neurobiology

By John A. Valenzuela Copyright 2026
184 Pages
by Routledge

184 Pages
by Routledge

Addressing the intersection between analytical psychology and neuroscience, this book applies the science of memory reconsolidation to Jungian methods of dream interpretation to reexamine Carl Jung’s vision of archetypes and the collective unconscious. Writing from the perspective of depth and clinical psychology, the author explores how dreams and dreamwork promote neuroplastic changes in the... Read more

Preface

Acknowledgements                       

Introduction                                                          

 

Part 1: Accessing the Dream

1.     Jung, Analytical Psychology, Neuroscience, and Interpersonal Neurobiology: Reengaging complex theory

2.     The Neuroscience of the Dream’s Journey: Affects, Memories, and Predictive Coding

3.     Metacognition, Top-Down Processing, and Memory Reconsolidation

Part 2: The Dream Series

4.     Prodromal Dreams and Disease: The Self Archetype and the Symbol of Pharmakon

5.     Interoception, Hemispherization, and the Anima

6.     Father Archetype: Fear and Related Complexes

7.     Abandonment, Pain, and Grief: Archetypes of the Other and the Orphan

8.     The Cultural Historical Dimension of the Collective Unconscious: Destabilizing Microaggressions that Construct Identity

Part 3: Conclusions

9.     Consilience

10.  Conclusion

Chronology

 

Biography

John A. Valenzuela is a licensed clinical psychologist in the United States. He has taught at the graduate level at both Pacifica and Antioch University, USA, and presented the topics of interpersonal neurobiology and Jungian psychology at the International Association of Dream Studies and the Jungian Society of Scholarly Studies conferences.