Redeeming the Grandfathers. A Creative Confrontation with Demonic Destruction with Mimi Potworowska

A remarkable synchronistic event between analyst and analysand precipitated the enquiry ‘Why has this occurred?’  The nature of the synchronicity seemed to demand that the transformation being sought by the analysand, take place first in the analyst, seemed to require that the analyst was

“as much “in the analysis” as the patient, (..) equally exposed to the transforming influences. (…) [and] must change himself if he is to be capable of changing his patient. (…) What is demanded is his own transformation, (…) in other words, what has happened to the patient must now happen to the doctor. (Jung 1931 §§166-172)

What follows is this journey; the analyst’s own descent, an imaginal writing process journey to the ancestors in order to discover what needs to be known and re-united for transformation to occur. We can then ask, what might remain undone and thus seeking redemption within our own lineage, and how this may be pertinent those we work with.