Abstract
Maypoles, Narratives of Transformation engages with the role of story in sandplay, differentiates the notions of story and narrative and explores the roots of the spring tradition of maypoles in England. Kalff's understanding of children's use of symbolic language and Jung's formulation of the collective unconscious underpin the basis for taking the four stages in the maypole rites as worthy phases in the experiencing of individuation. Speaking of an urban practice, in a modest way the sandplay room, the tray and the evocation of psyche are given space to enact this relation to the ground and its fertility. It is the psychological capacity of an individual to work this ground in sandplay that enables, what is elsewhere, to be present. For example, not the literal mountain or water well, but the sensed meaningfulness or memory of those locations clinical material is offered as visual examples to illustrate the points made.
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