The Inner Lover: Using Passion as a Tool for Self-empowerment

This is a practical guide to using romantic and sexual fantasy for personal growth. The author describes how the reader - using fantasy, dreamwork, and active imagination - can internalize outer attractions into an "inner lover". She shows how cultivating a relationship with the inner lover can facilitate increased personal growth and creativity, resulting in Jungian "sacred marriage", a state of inner harmony, balance and wholeness. The author discusses the effect of one's first outer lovers - one's parents - on later love relationships, as well as the effect of adolescent influences such as rock stars. She then moves into the realm of real lovers - spouses, impossible or inappropriate attractions, same-sex friends or lovers - using her own experiences as illustrations. Here she shows how the reader can use any relationship to transform pain, anger or disappointment into the energy of the inner love. The author also wrote "Frolic's Dance" and "Unmashing".