Extracted from Volumes 4, 8, 12, and 16. Includes "The Analysis of Dreams," 'On the Significance of Number Dreams," "General Aspects of Dream Psychology," "On the Nature of Dreams," "Individual Dream Symbolism in Relation to Alchemy," and "The Practical Use of Dream-Analysis."
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'Not the least of Jung's services to his time was his demonstration of how the dreaming process in man, far from being archaic and redundant, was more relevant than ever.' - Laurens van der Post
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Carl Gustav Jung (1875-1961) was a Swiss psychiatrist, an influential thinker and the founder of analytical psychology (also known as Jungian psychology). Jung's radical approach to psychology has been influential in the field of depth psychology and in counter-cultural movements across the globe. Jung is considered as the first modern psychologist to state that the human psyche is "by nature religious" and to explore it in depth. His many major works include "Analytic Psychology: Its Theory and Practice," "Man and His Symbols," "Memories, Dreams, Reflections," "The Collected Works of Carl G. Jung," and "The Red Book."
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“ 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. ”
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45 of 54 people found the following review helpful
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Carl Jung says he has analysed more than 2.000 dreams per year, a very impressive number by anyone's standards. In his Dreams book, which a very good collection of many of his dreams experiments, he is after demolishing some Freudian's dreams concepts, mainly the one which asserts that the purpose of dreams is to fulfill infantile sexual wishes repressed in the unconscious, which don't find adequate outlet trough conscious activities.
To add content to this dispute, one has only to have in mind that Jung was a very ardent disciple of Freud in the beginning of his career, but the relationship turned sour after 1914 in the figthing for prestige at the foundation of the Psychanalisys in the beginning of the 20th century.
In Jung's view, dreams are not only wish fulfillers, but they are also compensatory vis-a-vis our daily conscious life. So, the purpose of them is to balance our conscious and unconscious life. So, if life is good, dreams are bad and vice-versa. At the end of his life, Jung said in one of his testimonials that by means of a very representative dream he closed a circle, which meant he got a balanced mental life between unconscious and consciousness.
To add content to this dispute, one has only to have in mind that Jung was a very ardent disciple of Freud in the beginning of his career, but the relationship turned sour after 1914 in the figthing for prestige at the foundation of the Psychanalisys in the beginning of the 20th century.
In Jung's view, dreams are not only wish fulfillers, but they are also compensatory vis-a-vis our daily conscious life. So, the purpose of them is to balance our conscious and unconscious life. So, if life is good, dreams are bad and vice-versa. At the end of his life, Jung said in one of his testimonials that by means of a very representative dream he closed a circle, which meant he got a balanced mental life between unconscious and consciousness.
Also, dreams should be taken not as isolated entities, but rather as a series of concatenated manifestations of the unconscious, something which could be represented by the ancient mandalas (Sanscrit for circle) of many peoples from the ancient world (mayas, hindus, polinesians, etc...), where the ultimate end is to attain a balance mind. Jung's theory of the unconscious is, in my opinion, pretty much more attractive than Freud's, specially in what it regards the timelessness of the unconscious and the unconscious collective.
Reading "Dreams" after reading Freud's "Interpretation of Dreams" is a magnificient experience and the winner is surely the reader, who gets the most of two of the most proeminent and polemical psychanalysts of all times.
33 of 39 people found the following review helpful
By "eserhan"
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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 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.
10 of 11 people found the following review helpful
5.0 out of 5 stars
If you ever wanted to take a view into dream Psychology this is your text.
February 4, 2008
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This is an amazing text and I will not ruin the surprises inside its cover but its ability to bring to light the most prevalent of the West's archetypes in the subconscious is astounding. This is for the avid dreamer who wishes to begin to understand what all of your dreams represent. Do not expect a kind of glossary for dream symbolism such text is worthless in our Global Village. Expect however a firm footing in the patterns prevalent in dream. If new to Jung read Man and His Symbols first.
Most Recent Customer Reviews
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Good stuff!
Come on folks, it's Carl Jung. All of his work is interesting and worth having in you're library. Highly recommend.
Published 4 hours ago by Dissident
5.0 out of 5 stars
loved it
purchased this book to use in a class for my final on dream analysis. It assisted me with my porject and gave me the perspective and analysis point of view by Carl Jung.
Published 2 months ago by Sandra K. Lindblad
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For the Jung Enthusiast
The book is quite dense and hard to read compared to other Jungian works such as 'Man and His Symbols', 'Aion' etc, and other works written for lay readers such as by Robert... Read more
Published 21 months ago by G. Taylor
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I have only just received this book and have barely skimmed it. However, I can tell you that if you are accustomed to reading Jung it is fascinating, revelatory, and greatly... Read more
Published on April 15, 2011 by Brenda Eastin Bell
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A COLLECTION OF JUNG'S PAPERS ON THIS SUBJECT
The Editorial Note to this volume states, "During his period of activity as a psychoanalyst, he published several papers on dreams, and two of these are included in the present... Read more
Published on August 25, 2010 by Steven H. Propp
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correction to review
Well at first it was a bad transaction I had gotten the wrong book but the seller made it right and sent the correct book with their regrets of the previous bad transaction.
Published on August 24, 2010 by Hannah M. Chisholm
5.0 out of 5 stars
Great book for the dreamers
This is a fantastic book for anyone interested in Jungian psychology, dream interpretation, the nature of the unconscious, alchemy, symbolism in dreams and all that fascinating... Read more
Published on April 5, 2010 by Nikki
4.0 out of 5 stars
challenging, rewarding, mind- opening.
I'm fairly new to Jung but also quite hooked. This was my first read after working my way through the Viking Portable Jung (which has overlapping material), and I will continue,... Read more
Published on June 22, 2009 by Michael P. Mccracken
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Scientific
This is a good example of Dr. Jung's interperative technique in action, but you'll need to do alot of cross-referencing if you want to get a good grasp. Read more
Published on July 25, 2008 by Jeffrey Albrecht
4.0 out of 5 stars
some of Jung's dream stuff in one volume...
Useful if you don't feel like poring over the Collected Works looking for some of Jung's theorizing on working a dream. You might also check out Jung's Dreams seminar.
Published on June 1, 2000 by Craig Chalquist, PhD, author of TERRAPSYCHOLOGY and DEEP CALIFORNIA
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