The imaginai components of jealousy are almost identical to those of love. The images of love can include idealized images of the loved one, remembered moments of bliss, and images of future happiness. Although the love images focus primarily on the benign and blissful, there can also be painful and tormenting images of misunderstandings and fearful images of unthinkable separation. The latter images usually arise because of feared or actual situations which invoke jealousy.

Sexual Jealousy: Evaluation and Assessment Using the Principles of Psycho-Imagination Therapy

How does the world look to a man or woman who is sad, furious, happy, aggressive, sexual, guilty, conscience-stricken, loved, fat, ugly, etc.? And how does the world look to a man or woman in his house, at work, on vacation, in sexual situations, alone, with members of the same sex, in school, in crisis, in war, with nature, with people close to him, etc.?

Joseph E. Shorr

Papers

The Existential Question and the Imaginary Situation as Therapy