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#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 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 #CarlJung #Quotes #dreams If we want to interpret the dream correctly, we need a thorough knowledge of the conscious situation at that moment, because the dream contains its unconscious complement, that is, the material which the conscious situation has constellated in the unconscious. Without this knowledge it is impossible to interpret a dream correctly, except . . . → Read More: Dream Material as Constellations of the Unconscious #CarlJung #quotes #dreams As against Freud’s view that the dream is essentially a wish-fulfillment, I hold . . . that the dream is a spontaneous self-portrayal, in symbolic form, of the actual situation in the unconscious. Carl Jung (CW 8: The Structure and Dynamics of the Psyche, “General Aspects of Dream Psychology,” 505) See larger image The Structure and Dynamics of the Psyche (Collected Works of C.G. Jung, Volume 8) (Hardcover) List Price: New From: Used from: #CarlJung #quotes #dreams 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) See larger image The Practice of Psychotherapy: Essays on the Psychology of the Transference and Other Subjects (Bollingen Series) (Paperback) List Price: New From: Used from: #CarlJung #JosephCampbell #quote #dreams Little dreams come from a level of dream consciousness that has to do with quite personal complications. They emerge from the level that has come to be known as the Freudian or unconscious. Little dreams are essentially autobiographical in their character, and there’ll be nothing in these particular dreams of yours . . . → Read More: Jung: Little Dreams Today, we have the idea of a two-story psyche, so to say. Down below lies the unconscious, while the conscious individual is above. This individual has a sort of flashlight in his hand: consciousness. Now, if I ask you what were you doing at 10:30 PM on such and such a day, you might not . . . → Read More: Freud’s definition of the unconscious and ego Let me give a summary of Freud’s thoughts on this matter so that we will have the basis for discussion of the individual and society. First, Freud based his model psychology on the idea that there is a will, a desire,an “I want” that is inherent in the psyche. The psyche is a little “I . . . → Read More: Society, Method, and Personal Development (Freud) #JosephCampbell #quote #dreams #archetypes Now, typically, all these archetypes come out personified in myths and dreams. We personify the mystery of the universe as God. The ego becomes the hero or heroine figure. The unconscious self becomes the wise man or woman. The shadow becomes personified, too, as a kind of Mephistophelian figure. Evidently, the . . . → Read More: Myths & Dreams Contain Personified Archetypes #JosephCampbell #quote #shadow If you think of the self as a great circle in the center, any think of consciousness is well above that center, then the ego is up in the center of consciousness, and the shadow would be way down opposite in the deep unconscious. Shadow is inter down there for a reason; . . . → Read More: Campbell on Shadow cont’d |
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