Jung: Dream Interpretation is a Hypothesis

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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

Jung on Not Using a Dream Theory

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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

Jung: Dreams are Compensatory

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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?

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Jung: Dreams Show Inner Truth and Reality

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The dream shows the inner truth and reality of the patient as it really is: not as I conjectured to be, not as he would like it to be, but as it is.

Carl Jung (CW 16: The Practice of Psychotherapy, “The Practical Use of Dream Analysis,” 304)

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Jung: Dreams are Psyche’s Nocturnal Side

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The dream is specifically the utterance of the unconscious. Just as the psyche has a diurnal side which we call consciousness, so also it has a nocturnal; the unconscious psychic activity which we apprehend as dreamlike fantasy.

Carl Jung (CW 16: The Practice of Psychotherapy, “The Practical Use of Dream Analysis,” 317)

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Jung: Dreams Continue Even While Awake

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In sleep, fantasy takes the form of dreams. But in waking life, too, we continue to dream beneath the threshold of consciousness, especially when under the influence of repressed or other unconscious complexes.

Carl Jung (CW 16: The Practice of Psychotherapy, “The Practical Use of Dream Analysis,” 125)

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