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    Body as Shadow: Jung’s Embodied Individuation Process

    Author: Erica Lorentz

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    Body as Shadow brings forth in depth the missing piece in Jungian literature concerning Jung’s personal and professional relationship to the embodied soul and the central role it plays in his theory and also in clinical work. A plethora of helpful vignettes detailing clients’ and colleagues’ experiences brings its importance vividly to life.

    Due to be published February 2026

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    Erica Lorentz

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    9781800134065

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    Paperback, e-Book, Print & e-Book

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    220

    Publication Date

    February 2026

    Subject Areas

    Jung & Analytic Psychology

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    In a world bursting with theories and techniques about the body and how to incorporate it into therapy and trauma work, very little is written about Jung’s knowledge of the embodied process. Body as Shadow: Jung’s Embodied Individuation Process articulates this Jungian perspective in depth, underpinning Jung’s approach to the body in his theory and practice with neuroscientific research and later Jungian writers who amplify Jung’s perspective with their own theory and clinical knowledge. 

    Embodied active imagination was Jung’s preferred method of encountering the psyche and traveling along the path of individuation. To illustrate Jung’s theory of active imagination as a powerful tool for transformation, Erica Lorentz presents case material that facilitates the readers’ experience and understanding of the Mundus Imaginalis (the imaginal realm), where soul, body, emotion, energy, imagination, somatic unconscious, and subtle body guide both client and analyst into a dialogue with the personal and archetypal unconscious in the healing work. These vignettes also offer a lens through which readers can perceive the interactive field of the therapeutic relationship. What does this process look like? How do we learn to embrace and work with it? Weaving theory and clinical process, Lorentz expands conceptual understanding, making it embodied and real. Body as Shadow is essential reading for Jungian practitioners, scholars, students, and all therapists interested in deepening their clinical practice.

    About the author

    About the author

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    Erica Lorentz fell in love with dance as a child. Later, she was interested in a broad range of dance and movement modalities that brought her into energic, emotional, and imaginal expression. At the age of twenty-three, she began working with her authentic movement (Movement as Active Imagination) mentor, Janet Adler. Adler put her feet on the path of an embodied approach to psychology. Authentic movement taught her not only how to tune deeply into her own embodied soul (energy, emotions, imagination, somatic unconscious, and subtle body), but also it taught her how to sit with and witness others without judgement or interpretation. This became a foundation for her analytic work.

    In graduate school, Erica Lorentz focused on object relations under the tutelage of psychoanalyst Dr. Elaine Seigel. Working with autistic and schizophrenic children and adolescents demanded that she use an embodied nonverbal approach to create a transference relationship. After graduating, she taught object relations at Antioch Graduate School of Professional Psychology for four years.

    Her training did not feel complete. It left out the creative and archetypal power of the unconscious world. In 1988, she began training to become a psychoanalyst with the Inter-Regional Society of Jungian Analysts (IRSJA). At this time, she had a clinical practice and taught courses and lectures on Jung and the expressive arts at the Jung Center in Houston TX. Eventually, she became the Director of the School for Expressive Arts.

    In 1998, she wrote her thesis on “Jung, Spirituality, and the Body” and became a Jungian psychoanalyst (IAAP). The research for her thesis revealed how much Jung honored and spoke of the importance of embodied experience for transformation and how central it was in his theory. She became a training analyst for the IRSJA. Presently, she is a training analyst in the C. G. Jung Institute of New England and has a private practice. 

    Since 1986, she has given lectures and taught workshops focused on Jung and the body and embodied active imagination throughout the US and Canada, and in the UK. She has created several webinars for the Jung Platform and has been interviewed by Pacific radio. One of her lectures was filmed by New England Public Radio. In 2024, she had the honor of teaching in India for the Jungian psychoanalytic router training program, SMART, an expressive arts training program, and Christ University, where she gave a brief talk at the inauguration of the Indian Psychology Lab and a lecture for the graduate psychology department.

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    Table of Contents

    About the author

    Introduction

    1. The embodied soul

    2. Body as shadow

    3. Jung’s embodied individuation process

    4. Psychoid phenomena and subtle body

    5. Embodied active imagination

    6. Movement as active imagination

    Conclusion

    Weaving theory into practice

    References

    Index

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