Dreams

This Jungian Life Podcast

Joseph Lee, Deborah Stewart, Lisa Marchiano

Health & Fitness, Mental Health

4.7 • 2.1K Ratings

🗓️ 5 July 2018

⏱️ 40 minutes

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Summary

Jung was one of the primary theorists who added to our understanding of the psychological significance of dreams, and working with dreams is often a central part of an analytic process. What is the Jungian understanding of why we dream? What does it mean if we don't dream, and what are some ways of learning to work with dreams? We discuss things one can do to help with dream recall, and ponder whether we dream all day long, even when awake. We also talk about the nature of symbols in dreams and dream series.

Here's the Dream We Analyze:

"I ran into a male friend who I have not seen for a few years in the lobby of a ridiculously high-end hotel. I was wearing only a towel. He asked me to join him in his room, which was called “the mermaid aquarium,” along with a female friend of his who was already in the room. Somewhere along the line in the hotel lobby he bought me orange-scented perfume. I found his room. I just remember entering the room and seeing two nude women lying on the bed wearing exotic jewelry."

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Transcript

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0:00.0	Welcome to this Jungian life.
0:03.0	Three good friends and Jungian analysts, Lisa Marciano, Deborah Stewart and Joseph Lee,
0:09.0	invite you to join them for an intimate and honest conversation that brings a psychological perspective to important issues of the day.
0:17.0	I'm Lisa Marciano and I'm a youngian analyst in Philadelphia.
0:22.0	I'm Joseph Lee and I'm a youngian analyst in Philadelphia. I'm Joseph Lee and I'm a young
0:24.7	an analyst in Virginia Beach, Virginia. I'm Deborah Stewart, a youngian
0:29.4	analyst on Cape Cod. And today we're going to be probing the topic of dreams. Why do we care about them? What do we know about them? Why do they matter?
0:40.0	Wow. Well, I'm thinking that, you know, in Jungian theory as an overall kind of broad brush
0:48.0	description, the idea is to establish more of a connection, more dialogue between consciousness and the unconscious.
1:00.0	A Jungian analysis does not work only with the ego, only with consciousness.
1:07.0	We want that depth and we want to achieve it in ourselves so that we have access to more of ourselves. And dreams are a good way to
1:18.0	establish more access. It's not the only way to dialogue with the unconscious, but we dream four or five times a night.
1:27.2	So they are, dreams are a wonderful well that fills every night and that we can and do dip into if we can
1:41.4	awaken from a dream and get it written down or recorded in some way.
1:49.2	And oftentimes people have a dream just before waking. So it's a very rich source of information
1:57.1	from the unconscious which is central to Jungian analysis.
2:03.0	I'd like to add that Jung had a very clear thought about the necessity for dreams in order for us to have psychological balance.
2:15.0	That in our waking life, the dominant force is the ego, the waking attitudes, the orientation towards life, and that in order for us to even move
2:26.8	forward in this outer world, there are tremendous alternative ways of thinking and being that have to be put aside that can't be
2:36.6	experienced. It's in the dream life that the ego is forced through the drama of the dream to experience the other
2:47.4	side of their options, the other sides of the attitudes which they may not be living out,
2:54.7	and the other hidden sides of various circumstances,
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