Jung’s Last Mandala: 1927From Memories, Dreams, Reflections, page 223 I found myself in a dirty, sooty city. It was night, and winter, and dark, and raining. I was in Liverpool. With a number of Swiss—say half a dozen. I walked through the dark streets. I had the feeling that there we were coming from the…
From Claire Dunne’s Carl Jung: Wounded Healer of the Soul, page 209: Man and His Symbols, Jung’s last work, had a typical birth. The highly successful Freeman interview prompted a publisher’s request for a book of Jung’s “more important and basic ideas,” this time “for the people in the market place.” No, said eighty-three year…
The Gilgamesh cylinder seal, Assyria, ca.7th c. BC. A second time Gilgamesh said to his mother: Mother, I have had another dream: At the gate of my marital chamber there lay an axe, and people had collected about it. The Land of Uruk was standing around it, the whole land had assembled about it,…
Marie Louise von Franz Comments on the Dream of Gilgamesh Gilgamesh got up and revealed the dream, saying to his mother: Mother, I had a dream last night Stars of the sky appeared, and some kind of meteorite of Anu fell next to me. I tried to lift it but it was too mighty…
A few years later Wilhelm was staying as a guest in my house, and came down with an attack of amoebic dysentery. It was a disease he had had twenty years before. His condition grew worse during the following months, and then I heard that Wilhelm was in the hospital. I went to Frankfurt to…
To concern ourselves with dreams is a way of reflecting on ourselves-a way of self-reflection. It is not our ego-consciousness reflecting on itself; rather, it turns its attention to the objective actuality of the dream as a communication or message from the unconscious, unitary soul of humanity. It reflects not on the ego but on…
I take the dream for what it is. The dream is such a difficult and complicated thing that I do not dare to make any assumptions about its possible cunning or its tendency to deceive. The dream is a natural occurrence, and there is no earthly reason why we should assume that it is a…
The view that dreams are merely the imaginary fulfillments of repressed wishes is hopelessly out of date. There are, it is true, dreams which manifestly represent wishes or fears, but what about all the other things? Dreams may contain ineluctable truths, philosophical pronouncements, illusions, wild fantasies, memories, plans, anticipations, irrational experiences, even telepathic visions, and…
I have no theory about dreams, I do not know how dreams arise. And I am not at all sure that – my way of handling dreams even deserves the name of a “method.” I share all your prejudices against dream-interpretation as the quintessence of uncertainty and arbitrariness. On the other hand, I know that…