WHAT
ARE DREAMS
"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.".....Carl Jung
Dreams are more than random fragments spun from your waking
life. Pay them proper respect and they will reward you with
a greater understanding of yourself and your world as you
see it.
Dreams: symbolic expressions of the unconscious (and of the
total psyche). A phylogenetically older form of thought. The
dream is a fact of objective nature and therefore not a disguise.
(Sugar in the blood means sugar and nothing else.) It is its
own interpretation and is only misunderstood when we don't
fathom its symbols. The manifest aspect is the dream images
themselves, and they contain the "latent" meaning.
It's not what causes a dream, but it's purpose, that matters.
Stages of the dream: the statement of place and protagonists
(statements of time are rarer), the exposition, the plot development,
the culmination or peripeteia, and the solution or result
(lysis)(a few rare dreams lack this stage). Dream-ego: a fragment
of the waking ego. In a dream with several scenes, each usually
shows a variation of the working out of a complex. Recurrent
dreams mean a recurrent conscious attitude.
Jung distinguished between the dream's compensatory and prospective
(diagnostic or anticipatory) functions. Compensatory dreams
occur when the ego is more or less on track; when it's way
off, prospective (a type of compensation) dreams seek to bring
it back. There are also reaction-dreams, which are caused
by trauma.
Dreams have two levels of interpretation, the objective (analytical),
in which the symbols stand for external realities, and subjective
(synthetic; "hermeneutic"), in which they stand
for aspects of the dreamer's psyche. If the person dreamed
about is of vital interest to the dreamer, an object interpretation
is probably appropriate.
Archetypal symbols are the only "fixed" symbols
and for assimilation need objective amplification by studies
in mythology, folklore, comparative religion, archeology,
language, and anthropology. The dreams primitive peoples call
"big" are those with archetypal contents. They usually
occur around key developmental periods. They also occur when
we overlook the eternally human nature of a problem.
Dream series: one in which the changes and recurrences of
symbols appear against various backgrounds, much as an unknown
word seen in different sentences becomes understandable. The
series corrects misinterpretations in later dreams, setting
up an ongoing dialog between ego and unconscious.
If you, in the first eight months of your life, are often
frustrated in your need to suckle, perhaps because mother
is uncomfortable or even rough with you, or tries to wean
you too early, then you may develop an oral-passive character.
An oral-passive personality tends to be rather dependent on
others. They often retain an interest in "oral gratifications"
such as eating, drinking, and smoking. It is as if they were
seeking the pleasures they missed in infancy.
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