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#Quotes #dreams #CarlJung “What is the purpose of the total dream life of the individual? What role do dreams play, not only in the immediate psychic economy of the human being, but in his life as a whole? By observing a great many people and starting their dreams (he estimated that he interpreted at least . . . → Read More: Dreams and Individuation #CarlJung #Quotes #Dreams Every interpretation is an hypothesis, an attempt to read an unknown text. An obscure dream, taken in isolation, can hardly ever be interpreted with any certainty. For this reason I attached little importance to the interpretation of single dreams. A relative degree of certainty is reached only in the interpretation of a . . . → Read More: Jung: Dream Interpretation is a Hypothesis #CarlJung #Quotes #Dreams I leave theory aside as much as possible when analyzing dreams–not entirely, of course, for we always need some theory to make things intelligible. It is on the basis of theory, for instance, that I expect dreams to have a meaning. I cannot prove every case that this is so, for there . . . → Read More: Jung on Not Using a Dream Theory #CarlJung #quotes #dreams When a dream apparently disguises something and a particular person therefore seems indicated, there is an obvious tendency at work not to allow this person to appear, because, in the sense of the dream, he represents a mistaken way of thinking or acting. When, for instance, as not infrequently happens in women’s . . . → Read More: Dreams Mistaken Identities Explained #CarlJung #quotes #dreams Owl Head Stand by Thomas Woodruff Nature is often obscure or impenetrable, but she is not, like men, deceitful. We must therefore take it that the dream is just what pretends to be, neither more nor less. If it shows something in a negative light, there is no reason for assuming . . . → Read More: Dreams, Like Nature, Do not Deceive #CarlJung #quotes #dreams Dream Line by Goodfoot42 I take the dream for what it is. The dream is such a difficult and complicated thing but 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 . . . → Read More: Jung: The Dream is a Natural Occurrence #CarlJung #Quotes #dreams Parables by Jane Mitchell
It is characteristic that dreams never express themselves in a logical, abstract way but always in the language of parable or simile. This is also a characteristic of primitive languages, whose flowery turns of phrase are very striking. If we remember the monuments of ancient . . . → Read More: Dreams Speak in Parable and/or Simile. #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 #CarlJung #Quotes #dreams "Whispers of Aloha," Zentangle Inspired Art by Lois Heinani Stokes, CZT® As individuals we are not completely unique, but are like all other men. Hence the dream with a collective meaning is valid in the first place for the dreamer, but it expresses at the same time the fact that his . . . → Read More: When the Dream has Collective Meaning #CarlJung #Quotes #dreams Anyone sufficiently interested in the dream problem cannot have failed to observe that dreams also have a continuity forwards–if such an expression be permitted–since dreams occasionally exert a remarkable influence on the conscious mental life even of persons who cannot be considered superstitious or particularly abnormal. Carl Jung (CW 8: The Structure . . . → Read More: Dreams Can Influence Conscious Mental Life |
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