Up: [[Active Imagination]] Created: 2024-12-28 Updated: 2025-05-08 #### Projection If you project your unconscious contents on to the person you know and vice versa, it can lead to misunderstandings about them and your relationship with them. An example is deciding that you’re in love with someone and believing that the Active Imagination with that person shows the love is reciprocated. #### Blurs Boundaries Between your inner world and external reality. The above example connects here. It’s a big problem if you start to confuse the actions or behaviours of that inner lover with those of the actual person. It can lead to you having unrealistic expectations or assumptions about the living person. #### Emotional Intensity Active Imagination can bring up intense emotions or unresolved issues. If these are associated a living person, it can complicate your relationship with them and make it harder to manage and process these emotions. #### Distracts You from Your Self [[Active Imagination Is]] for the purpose of self-exploration and understanding. Working with a living person in an Active Imagination can lead to emphasizing them over you. The bottom line is that working with a person you know can shift the energy with that person, and that’s not fair if they’re not part of the process.