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> Reading Jung I had the impression that the only meaningful interpretation of dreams has to be made by the dreamer I don't believe that is the case. Jung hims
by eternalban 3y ago
> Reading Jung I had the impression that the only meaningful interpretation of dreams has to be made by the dreamer
I don't believe that is the case. Jung himself made a delicious mis-interpretation of his dream -- it's in his [Memories, Dreams, Reflections] -- that fully exposed his blindspot in terms of self assessment. (In the dream, Jung enters the center of the circle and lectures (lol) the white haired dude in the center. I always found that very amusing and informative.)
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p.s. found it - it's not exactly as I remembered it:
I dreamt that I was in an Arab city, and as in most such cities there was a citadel, a casbah. The city was situated in a broad plain, and had a wall all around it. The shape of the wall was square, and there were four gates.
The casbah in the interior of the city was surrounded by a wide moat (which is not the way it really is in Arab countries). I stood before a wooden bridge leading over the water to a dark, horseshoe-shaped portal, which was open. Eager to see the citadel from the inside also, I stepped out on the bridge. When I was about halfway across it, a handsome, dark Arab of aristocratic, almost royal bearing came toward me from the gate. I knew that this youth in the white burnoose was the resident prince of the citadel. When he came up to me, he attacked me and tried to knock me down.
We wrestled. In the struggle we crashed against the railing; it gave way and both of us fell into the moat, where he tried to push my head under water to drown me. No, I thought, this is going too far.
And in my turn I pushed his head under water. I did so although I felt great admiration for him; but I did not want to let myself be killed. I had no intention of killing him; I wanted only to make him unconscious and incapable of fighting.
Then the scene of the dream changed, and he was with me in a large vaulted octagonal room in the center of the citadel. The room was all white, very plain and beautiful. Along the light-colored marble walls stood low divans, and before me on the floor lay an open book with black letters written in magnificent calligraphy on milky-white parchment. It was not Arabic script; rather, it looked to me like the Uigurian script of West Turkestan, which was familiar to
me from the Manichaean fragments from Turfan. I did not know the contents, but nevertheless I had the feeling that this was "my book," that I had written it.
The young prince with whom I had just been wrestling sat to the right of me on the floor. I explained to him that now that I had overcome him he must read the book. But he resisted. I placed my arm around his shoulders and forced him, with a sort of paternal kindness and patience, to read the book. I knew that this was absolutely essential, and at last he yielded.
[I still find this highly amusing. Per my interpretation of the dream.]
p.s.s. to OP:
It's kind of a dark pattern to first grab people's intimate dreams and then tell them they need to download an app.
- dmbche 3y agoThank you, I'll look into it!