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Dream analysis is a distinctive and foundational part of analytical psychology, the school of psychology founded by C. G. Jung and his successors. This volume collects Jung's most insightful contributions to the study of dreams and their meaning. The essays in this volume, written by Jung between 1909 and 1945, reveal Jung's most essential views about dreaming--especially regarding the relationship between language and dream. Through these studies, Jung grew to understand that dreams are show more themselves a language, a language through which the soul communicates with the body. The essays included are "The Analysis of Dreams," "On the Significance of Number Dreams," "General Aspects of Dream Psychology," "On the Nature of Dreams," "The Practical Use of Dream Analysis," and "Individual Dream Symbolism in Relation to Alchemy" (complete with illustrations). New to this edition is a foreword by Sonu Shamdasani, Philemon Professor of Jung History at University College London. show lessTags
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A selection of Jung's writings about dreams. As it includes articles from various parts of his career, some are more critical of Freudian ideas about dream analysis than others and there is rather a lot of overlap between the articles. It gets quite technical, and the comparisons to alchemy did get quite wearisome in the latter part of the book.
Not only in dreams: About God, Jung said, I don't believe, I know. As soon as you read 'Dreams', you will have a complete sense of his amazing insights, not only on the subject matter, but on the complete human pysche. And this includes, as I tried to hint at from the very beginning, the very meaning of our existence.
Perhaps there would not be a Jung today, if there had not been a Freud preceding him. But a completely ignorant educated man here says, having read them both, that Jung's proposal is far more clever, ellaborate, comprehensive and convincing.
Jung was a unique scholar, he had a very distinctive ability to blend a lot of knowledge from seemingly unrelated areas of science into pyschology. His biography is an essential show more starting point to understand how he managed to develop this quality, which I think was key to his original thinking.
'Dreams' is a book of rare brilliance. Thanks to Jung, for providing a 'basis' for all things. show less
Classic work by Jung. A fairly complex read, incorporating psychology, science, mythology and folklore into the interpretation of dreams.
This book made me give up on my quest to put real Finished Reading dates for all the books I read before I got onto LibraryThing. What a slog.
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Carl Gustav Jung was born in Switzerland on July 26, 1875. He originally set out to study archaeology, but switched to medicine and began practicing psychiatry in Basel after receiving his degree from the University of Basel in 1902. He became one of the most famous of modern psychologists and psychiatrists. Jung first met Sigmund Freud in 1907 show more when he became his foremost associate and disciple. The break came with the publication of Jung's Psychology of the Unconscious (1912), which did not follow Freud's theories of the libido and the unconscious. Jung eventually rejected Freud's system of psychoanalysis for his own "analytic psychology." This emphasizes present conflicts rather than those from childhood; it also takes into account the conflict arising from what Jung called the "collective unconscious"---evolutionary and cultural factors determining individual development. Jung invented the association word test and contributed the word complex to psychology, and first described the "introvert" and "extrovert" types. His interest in the human psyche, past and present, led him to study mythology, alchemy, oriental religions and philosophies, and traditional peoples. Later he became interested in parapsychology and the occult. He thought that unidentified flying objects (UFOs) might be a psychological projection of modern people's anxieties. He wrote several books including Studies in Word Association, Flying Saucers: A Modern Myth of Things Seen in the Skies, and Psychology and Alchemy. He died on June 6, 1961 after a short illness. (Bowker Author Biography) show less
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Common Knowledge
- Original title
- Dreams
- Original publication date
- 1974
- First words
- In 1900, Sigmund Freud published in Vienna a voluminous work on the analysis of dreams.
- Last words
- (Click to show. Warning: May contain spoilers.)Let us take the wisdom of the old alchemists to heart: "Naturalissimum et perfectissimum opus est generare tale quale ipsum est." = "The most natural and perfect work is to generate its like."
- Original language
- German
Classifications
- Genres
- Nonfiction, General Nonfiction, Philosophy
- DDC/MDS
- 154.634 — Philosophy and Psychology Psychology Subconscious and altered states and processes In Sleep Dreams Dream Interpretation
- LCC
- BF1078 .J84 — Philosophy, Psychology and Religion Psychology Parapsychology Hallucinations. Sleep. Dreaming. Visions
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- Languages
- 6 — Dutch, English, German, Norwegian (Bokmål), Farsi/Persian, Turkish
- Media
- Paper, Ebook
- ISBNs
- 19
- ASINs
- 10