Kind of a dark abyss often appears in the images of my clients. It feels like endless blackness, something huge, disordered, little understood and frightening.
Usually contact with it causes severe fear, sometimes stupor, fading. You feel that you are infinitely small in relation to this «ocean», which can be accompanied by impotence and apathy.
This symbol reflects the essence of contact with the unconscious. This kind of image can appear at the moment when a person for the first time looks very deep into himself, or at a time when there are a lot of suppressed feelings, or when a new facet of experience, that was not previously available to consciousnesss ,is revealed .
If you look at the black hole, that the rabbit from «Alice» invites into, it looks absolutely intimidating. And our psyche draws the most bizarre and terrible scenes, probable dangers lurking inside. Just like when we were kids, we fantasized about monsters in the closet by projecting our repressed fears.
However, having jumped into this hole, we surrender ourselves to a certain internal state, where the controller weakens, and we rely more solely on trust in this very unconscious and intuition.
And on the other side of the hole, Something opens up. And this Something becomes obvious to you, and from this its property changes from the infinite abyss into something completely concrete.
Even if it may be huge, immense at first glance, it will have outlines. And then, step by step, this abyss reveals a picture of our unlived emotions or memories, impressions and fantasies, needs and feelings. When we begin to see at least a step forward there, it becomes possible to take this step and no longer freeze in horror in front of the unknown.
There, something interesting, something very difficult, something even routine work awaits us. As a rule, the meeting with Leviathan is still far away, so there is time to strengthen the Ego through such inner work.
But the first important step is to jump down the rabbit hole. A frequently conducted part of the therapy is devoted precisely to gaining a sufficiently specific resource for such a step.