Dreams of the Rarebit Fiend

Dreams of the Rarebit Fiend

 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…

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The Dream of Jacob’s Ladder: “The ladder symbolized a continuous, constant connection with the divine powers of the unconscious.”

 [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…

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C.G. Jung: “One of the principles of analytic psychology is that the dream images are to be understood symbolically.”

  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…