Carl Jung and the Psychology of Dreams – Messages from the Unconscious

Academy of Ideas

Self-improvement, Education

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🗓️ 20 June 2023

⏱️ 17 minutes

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“We also live in our dreams, we do not live only by day. Sometimes we accomplish our greatest deeds in dreams.” Carl Jung, The Red Book Are dreams the product of random brain activity, or a side effect of the mind consolidating its memories? Are they, as Sigmund Freud suggested, the expression of repressed wishes […]

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0:20.0	We also live in our dreams.
0:23.6	We do not live only by day.
0:27.6	Sometimes we accomplish our greatest deeds in dreams.
0:32.6	Are dreams the product of random brain activity or a side effect of the mind consolidating
0:38.9	its memories?
0:40.5	Are they, as Sigmund Freud suggested, the expression of repressed wishes and desires?
0:46.6	Or is there something richer and more meaningful to dreams that escapes the notice of many
0:51.0	in the modern day?
0:53.0	Karl Jung believed there was, and in this video we are going to explore why dreams are of vital
0:59.0	importance to our mental and physical health, and how the art of dream interpretation can
1:04.0	revitalize our life.
1:06.0	It is only in modern times that the dream, this fleeting and insignificant-looking product of the psyche,
1:13.4	has met with such profound contempt, writes Jung.
1:17.8	Formerly it was esteemed as a harbinger of fate, a portent and comforter, a messenger of the gods.
1:25.4	Now we see it as an emissary of the unconscious,
1:28.4	whose task it is to reveal the secrets that are hidden from the conscious mind.
1:33.3	And this it does with astounding completeness.
1:37.9	The interpretation of dreams was an integral part of Jung's therapeutic approach.
1:43.6	According to his own estimate, he analyzed
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