C.G Jung: “One would do well to treat every dream as though it were a totally unknown object. ” One would do well to treat every dream as though it were a totally unknown object. Look at it from all sides, take it in your hand, carry it about with you, let your imagination play…
C.G. Jung and the Dream of the Minute Mastodon “Someone beside me kept on asking me something about oiling some machinery. Milk was suggested as the best lubricant. Apparently I thought that oozy slime was preferable. Then a pond was drained, and amid the slime there were two distinct animals. One was…
Premonitions from a Dream A dream that is not interpreted is like a letter that is unread. The Talmud In September 2000, I dreamed: An airplane with a red, four-cylinder engine is leaking oil, and smoke is coming from the engine. The plane takes off, but then immediately crashes. I woke up, and the first…
The dream that started Carl Jung’s conception of the Collective Unconscious
From Man and His Symbols (1964) From this line of reasoning, I concluded that only the material that is clearly and visibly part of a dream should be used in interpreting it. The dream has its own limitation. Its specific form itself tells us what belongs to it and what leads away from it. While…
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…
For approximately the last three weeks, this blog has been trying to view the Jared Loughner case in a Jungian context. Although there is still much to try to understand, it is also time to move on to other topics. To give equal time to the lighter side of life, for a while this blog…
The last two posts have spotlighted the archetypal symbolism of Jacob’s dream; here are more images: Jacob’s Ladder Via Latina Catecombs 4th Century Engraving 1720 Lika Tov SHALOM OF SAFED (1887-1980) Jacob’s Ladder III – Kathleen Anderson – 1995
In reviewing art and dreams from the Bible, the dream of Jacob’s Ladder is overwhelmingly the most popular subject. I find this dream (and the paintings) to be quite archetypal, to be illustrative of what dreams (at their best)can be about — the ladder to the Self.