Dream: An enraged man pursues me. I see that he is blind. Terrified, I manage to catch him in a suitcase and lock it, but his hands are not caught and still reach outside. When I meditated on this dream three things struck me: (1) the blindness of the angry part of me, (2) the…
It is good to see articles with a Jungian interpretation of a film… Excerpt from a www.mindhacks.com post: When you have a hammer, everything can look like a nail and people have been banging the shit out of Inception. The sci-fi movie of the year has attracted numerous ‘neuroscience of Inception’ reviews despite the…
In an earlier post, I reviewed Amy Hardie’s brilliant film documentary, The Edge of Dreaming. One of the comments Ms. Hardie made about the process was that she needed to go back in re-enter the dream, to transform it. Three psychotherapists had been unsuccessful in working with her, and she proceeded to find the help…
Scottish filmmaker Amy Hardie’s brilliant ninety-minute documentary film, The Edge of Dreaming , was shown on PBS last night. Ms. Hardie had a vivid premonitory dream that she would die in her 48th year; this greatly focused her attention on what was important in her life and on the reality of dreams. During the course…
It is always a pleasure to find (or to be found by) blogs with Jungian content. It is particularly enjoyable to find blogs written with style: Ms. Bellette writes with panache, irony, humor… (Excerpt from her latest blog) August 18, 2010 … I was hoping I would have a dream before the trip. We…
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…
Nature is often obscure or impenetrable, but she is not, like man, deceitful. We must therefore take it that the dream is just what it pretends to be, neither more nor less. If it shows something in a negative light, there is no reason for assuming that it is meant positively. “On the Psychology of…
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…
The dream is a little hidden door in the innermost and most secret recesses of the soul, opening into that cosmic night which was psyche long before there was any ego consciousness, and which will remain psyche no matter how far our ego-consciousness extends. For all ego-consciousness is isolated; because it separates and discriminates, it…