Analyzing Our Childhood Dreams
This Jungian Life Podcast
Joseph Lee, Deborah Stewart, Lisa Marchiano
4.8 • 1.7K Ratings
🗓️ 9 January 2025
⏱️ 84 minutes
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Summary
What do our earliest dreams reveal about the hidden forces shaping our lives?
Childhood dreams offer unmediated access to the collective unconscious, revealing symbols that shape lifelong development. These dreams often dramatize psyche's early encounters with polarities, fostering individuation through the integration of opposites. Nightmares and numinous imagery invite engagement with shadow and the sacred, acting as catalysts for growth and transformation. By revisiting childhood dreams through active imagination, individuals unlock their latent meanings. These dreams serve as both initiations into personal mythology and ongoing reservoirs of psychic energy, guiding the journey toward wholeness.
Prepare to discover what early encounters with archetypal images reveal about psyche's relationship to the collective unconscious, how psyche uses symbolic opposites to foster growth and balance, which recurring symbols and universal patterns guide psychological transformation, whether unresolved experiences from early life hold latent potential, why numinous imagery provides a foundation for understanding life's deeper meanings…and so much more.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to this Jungian life. |
| 0:04.2 | Three good friends and Jungian analysts, Lisa Marchiano, Deborah Stewart, and Joseph Lee, |
| 0:09.7 | invite you to join them for an intimate and honest conversation that brings a psychological perspective to important issues of the day. |
| 0:19.4 | I'm Lisa Marchiano, and I'm a Jungian analyst in Philadelphia. I'm Joseph Lee, |
| 0:24.9 | and I'm a Jungian analyst in Virginia Beach, Virginia. I'm Deborah Stewart, a Jungian analyst, |
| 0:31.1 | and Cape Cod. |
| 0:56.6 | Thank you. Well, as part of our exploration of all things dreams to correspond with a publication of our new book, Dreamwise, unlocking the meaning of your dreams, we are, as you may know, exploring a different type of dream each month. So this month, we're looking at children's dreams, and we |
| 1:03.7 | invited you, our listeners, to submit either dreams of children in your life perhaps or your recalled childhood dreams. |
| 1:13.6 | And I would say that most of you sent in recalled childhood dreams, which is really interesting. |
| 1:19.6 | We're going to hopefully dig into that a little bit more because many of us do have recalled |
| 1:25.6 | childhood dreams that affected us profoundly or left an impression in any case. |
| 1:31.5 | And Jung, of course, had childhood dreams that were incredibly important to him. |
| 1:38.5 | And I noticed because I'm usually the dream picker, it's very common that you send in your Remember Childhood |
| 1:45.3 | Dreams on the podcast, and I usually don't pick them because we don't have any context about |
| 1:51.7 | what was going on in your life at that time. And of course, that's a hard thing with kids. |
| 1:58.5 | And Jung did a whole seminar of children's dreams, which was published |
| 2:02.9 | as a book by the Philharmon Foundation. And he makes this point that we don't have a lot of |
| 2:08.7 | context often for kids. So we will, we will see what we can see. We're going to speak in general |
| 2:16.4 | about children's dreams. And then we'll also be looking |
| 2:19.4 | at some of the dreams that you sent us. But I want to start with a quote from Young, and this is |
| 2:24.7 | from the book, Children's Dreams. Children's dreams are often extraordinarily important |
| 2:31.6 | because the infantile consciousness is still weak, so that such |
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