Readers who are familiar with the previous version of my website may recall that the imaginal stood as as a central theme — the imaginal not as the imaginary or unreal, but rather as a concept which captures the subtler forms of experiences like dreams, imagination, and the inner life. And, though this new web incarnation emphasizes what I am calling ‘the new dissociationism,’ none of that imaginal emphasis is going away.
Dissociation is nothing if not inward and subtle,
a process deeply braided with the imaginal. But as I complete my doctoral thesis and
consider how best to communicate that work, I begin to understand that my research
might best be understood as a re-visioning
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of the process-phenomenon called dissociation. With each new article, paper,
and book-length project — all available on this site, open access —
I hope to throw open the windows on a new dissociationism.
Some will be new vistas on old ideas, while others call for fresh views
— a bit of a shakeup.
In order to understand, however, my thematic focus on new dissociationism, we will need to spend some time with the old dissociationism. And for that, we need to pay a visit to the past: