Posted by allisonm on December 4, 2003, at 18:09:13
In reply to Anybody know Jung and dreams?, posted by shar on November 30, 2003, at 21:52:47
Oh damn.
My pdoc is Jungian and he's great. We've tracked my dreams before. Also, I have read a lot about and by Jung and his daughter, Emma, and by some of his students. BUT...I am at school and all of my Jung books are at home. I won't get back home till early next week.
Yes! Certain things mean certain things in dreams (ooooooooh. can I get any clearer than that?). Water and fish, for example generally represent the subconscious... I can't remember the rest without fear of mixing stuff up.
What's cool is the similarity of people's dreams and the things in them. Jung studied them quite a lot and that fed his theories about the collective unconscious.
One needn't go daily to a Jungian therp. Weekly or every other week has been the norm for me... Or, hey. Get a book. There are some out there that list the meanings of things -- dictionary like. I have a pretty good one(...at HOME).
Re' animus and anima, that has to do not so much with animals and dreams, but with the masculine (animus) and feminine (anima) in all of us. All women have some animus in them (as well as anima), just as all men have anima (and animus). Both are important and essential. Emma Jung wrote about this. But again, my books are at home.
Snakes are important in Jungian stuff too. I think the ones eating their tails in artwork symbolically represent life or the cycle of life. I think...
Anyway, I can look stuff up once I get back home, Shar.
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