C.G. Jung: “Never apply any theory, but always ask a patient how he feels about his dream images.” Never apply any theory, but always ask the patient how he feels about his dream images. For dreams are always about a particular problem of the individual about which he has a wrong conscious judgment. The dreams…
Hokusai: The Great Wave Off Kanagawa We know that the mask of the unconscious is not rigid – it reflects the face we turn towards it. Hostility lends it a threatening aspect, friendliness softens its features. C.G. Jung; Psychology and Alchemy (1944). CW 12: P.29 —– Make being receptive to dreams an intention;…
[soliloquy id=”7829″] Beginning in 1952, cartoonists Joe Simon and Jack Kirby illustrated four issues of the “Strange World of Your Dreams.” The editors even offered to buy your dreams — $25 if your dream was selected. The byline on all of the comics: “What do they mean — Those messages received in sleep?”…
One of the most brilliant depictions of dreams was done by Windsor McCay, in a newspaper comic strip that began in 1904. (This is contemporaneous with Freud’s “The Interpretation of Dreams”, first published in 1899, but which took years to sell the first 600 copies.) At the time of McCay’s comic strip, one on of…
Magritte: Key to Dreams Understanding the Symbolism of Eggs in Dreams In coming across Michael Cornwall’s excellent post about how Jung utilized emotion as a key in understanding the dream, I somehow got to wondering how Internet dream sites interpreted dreams of eggs. In general, one has to be very careful of…
[soliloquy id=”7072″] Marie Louise von Franz Interprets the Dream of Jacob’s Ladder The Bible references more than 100 dreams or visions. The dream of Jacob’s Ladder is one of the better known dreams, and one of the most frequently depicted dreams in the art world. Jacob left Beersheba, and went toward Haran. He came…
(From Wikipedia:) According to the Confession of St. Patrick, at the age of just sixteen Patrick was captured by a group of Irish pirates. The raiders brought Patrick to Ireland where he was enslaved and held captive for six years. Patrick writes in The Confession that the time he spent in captivity was critical to…
I was sledding with my friends at night. I started to slide down the hill but my sled started going faster and faster. I was going so fast that I realized I was approaching the speed of light. I looked up at that point and I saw the stars. They were being refracted into colors…
C.G. Jung: The Principle of Understanding Dreams Symbolically It is a well-known fact that one of the principles of analytic psychology is that the dream images are to be understood symbolically; that is to say, that they are not to be taken literally just as they are presented in sleep, but that behind them a…