By Dan Gronwald, on May 9th, 2011 #CarlJung #Quotes #dreams
Dreamtime
If, in addition to this, we bear in mind that the unconscious contains everything that is lacking to consciousness, that the unconscious therefore has a compensatory tendency, then we can begin to draw conclusions–provided, of course, that the dream does not come from to deep a psychic level. If it . . . → Read More: Compensatory Dreams have Mythological Motifs
By Dan Gronwald, on May 5th, 2011 #CarlJung #quotes #dreams
The relation between conscious and unconscious is compensatory. This is one of the best-proven rules of dream interpretation. When we set out to interpret a dream, it is dream always helpful to ask: what conscious attitude does it compensate?
Carl Jung (“The Practical Use of Dream Analysis,” CW 16: The Practice of . . . → Read More: Jung: Dreams are Compensatory
By Dan Gronwald, on April 20th, 2011 #CarlJung #quotes #dreams
Though dreams contribute to the self-regulation of the psyche by automatically bringing up everything that is repressed or neglected or unknown, their compensatory significance is often not immediately apparent because we still have only a very incomplete knowledge of the nature and the needs of the human psyche. There are psychological compensations . . . → Read More: Jung: Compensation – From the Collective to the Individual
By Dan Gronwald, on April 20th, 2011 #CarlJung #quotes #dreams
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 are the reaction to our conscious attitude in the same way that the body reacts . . . → Read More: Jung: Dreams Self-Regulate the Psyche
By Dan Gronwald, on April 20th, 2011 #CarlJung #quotes #dreams
The more one-sided his conscious attitude is, and the further it deviates from the optimum, the greater becomes the possibility that vivid dreams with a strongly contrasting the purposive content will appear as an expression of the self-regulation of the psyche.
Carl Jung (CW 8: The Structure and Dynamics of the Psyche, . . . → Read More: Jung: Dreams as Self-Regulation of the Psyche
By Dan Gronwald, on April 20th, 2011 #CarlJung #quotes #dreams
The unconscious is the unknown at any given moment, so it is not surprising that dreams add to the conscious psychological situation of the moment all those aspects which are essential for a totally different point of view. It is evident that this function of dreams amounts to a psychological adjustment, a . . . → Read More: Jung: Dreams as Mechanisms of Compensation/Balance
By Dan Gronwald, on March 26th, 2011 #JosephCampbell #quote #CarlJung
Jung calls the problem of this so-called midlife crisis integration: the integration of the two sides of the personality in terms of an individual culture experience. Jung’s whole approach to psychology is based on the idea of these interactions. and
Remember, Freud explored the idea of the wish and the prohibition, essentially . . . → Read More: Midlife Crisis = integration
By Dan Gronwald, on September 23rd, 2010 C. G. Jung discoursed in the same vein: “A dream, like every element in the psychic structure, is a resultant of the total psyche. Hence we may expect to find in dreams everything that has ever been of significance in the ‘life of humanity. Just as human life is not limited to this or that . . . → Read More: The compensatory and projecting, guiding function of dreams (and myth).
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