C.G. Jung, To dream of fishing
C.G. Jung: “Fishing is an intuitive attempt to “catch” unconscious contents (fishes).”
[A young woman dreams:] I came to the bank of a broad, flowing river. I couldn’t see much at first, only water, earth and rock. I threw the pages with my notes into the water, with the feeling that I was giving something back to the river. Immediately afterwards, I had a fishing rod in my hand. I sat done on a rock and started fishing…. Suddenly a big fish bit. He had a golden belly and silver back.
This dream has all the marks of a “big” dream, and it also has the quality of thoughts which is characteristic of the intuitive type. Even though the dreamer had acquired some knowledge of psychology by this time, she had no knowledge whatever of the historical fish symbol
The details of this dream may be commented on as follows: The bank of the river represents the threshold, so to speak, of the unconscious. Fishing is an intuitive attempt to “catch” unconscious contents (fishes).
It is so beautiful and soothing to me ….just to read these words….thank you …and of course to catch unconscious contents….it is what my life is about….