Jungian Dreaming

Dream analyses

Through detailed dream accounts, dream analyses shows the critical importance and reality of culturally specific archetypal themes and imagery in the everyday life of individuals, and the indelible impact that they have on the psyche of people.  After all, inexperienced people and computer generated dream analyses software are not going to be able to accurately decipher your experience.      

Centuries of Dream

Dream analysis has been around for centuries but it is only in the last century or two that real analysis has taken place.  Philosophy student Friedrich Nietzsche with particular interest in the nihilist ideas of 19th-century, was one such person and psychiatrist Carl Jung, of 20th-century, used dream analyses extensively.  Carl Jung, for many years held an “inner circle” of people who met regularly with him for mutual dream analyses.    

Jungian method

Today, this compact discussion of the Jungian method of dream analyses is a thorough examination of basic concepts as they are applied in practical dream interpretation. The practitioner, preferably a psychiatrist and Jungian Analyst, clearly can outline the process of understanding dreams and addresses their purpose. Dreams are for "problem solving and personality development." First they are compensation for conscious attitudes that are ineffective. Secondly dreams serve as guides to conscious integration of the unconscious elements of the psyche as an individual matures into an effective individuated being.  This compact discussion of the Jungian method of dream analyses is a thorough examination of basic concepts as they are applied in practical dream interpretation. The practitioner today, if well trained, can clearly outlines the process of understanding dreams and addresses their purpose.  Dreams are for "problem solving and personality development." First they are compensation for conscious attitudes that are ineffective. Secondly dreams serve as guides to conscious integration of the unconscious elements of the psyche as an individual matures into an effective individuated being.  By applying his concept of the collective unconscious to thousands of dream analyses, the practitioner through Jung is able to discern that there are universal themes, images and symbols in the dreams of all patients.