Dreams and Dream Interpretation

1 Introduction to Dreams
by Robert Winer, M.D.

2 Example of Dream Interpretation on my FB Page
Jungian Dream Interpretation
by James A. Hall, M.D.
Applied Dream Analysis: A Jungian Approach (excerpted)
by  Mary Ann Mattoon, Ph.D., University of Minnesota
Practical Use of Dream Analysis
by C.G. Jung, M.D.
"Children's Dream Seminar"
by C.G. Jung, M.D.
Approaching the Unconscious from "Man and His Symbols"
by C.G. Jung, M.D.
Dream Animals
by James Hillman
Dreaming: A Very Short Introduction
by J. Allan Hobson

An excellent introduction to the science of dreams.
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Amplification and Associating to Dream Images
A. Excerpt from M.L. Von Franz's book "Creation Myths":
1. The Threshold Phenomena
2. The Reality of the Unconscious
3. First Step: Amplification and Associating to Dream Motifs
4. Second Step: Formulation of an Interpretation
B. Practice Materials
1. Greet the Bull: An image from Euripides' play "Hippolytos."
2. Dream: "The Saint and the Bull" from C.G. JUNG: THE VISIONS SEMINARS: From the Complete Notes of Mary Foote, Spring Publications, 1976.

DICTIONARY OF ANALYTICAL PSYCHOLOGY by ROBERT WINER

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Sample of Dictionary Entries:

Abaissement
The French physician Pierre Janet first introduced the term abaissement (abaissement du niveau mental, literally meaning “a lowering of the mental level”) into psychology to refer to the idea that at times one can demonstrate that a subject’s field of consciousness can become smaller and restricted:
  • “The only essential and certain thing is that this extent of the field of consciousness varies very much with individuals and their state of mind. … [In hysteria] the mind is too narrow to contain several ideas opposing one another. … The field of consciousness becomes … more contracted. The patient can no longer perceive more than two elementary sensations at once. “ (Janet, “The Major Symptoms of Hysteria, 1920, p. 307).
Jung’s understanding of abaissement adds greater value to Janet’s idea by expressing it in energic terms: At times, when under the influence of a psychic factor, the field of consciousness alters because there is not enough “energy” to maintain it normally. This allows normally unconscious factors to become manifested. Then “abaissement” becomes a principle of “the spontaneous or voluntarily lowering of the energy tension of consciousness” manifesting in: 1. The images of normal sleep (dreams); 2. Certain phenomena seen in psychopathology; 3. Parapraxis of everyday life; and 4. Active imagination. Jung notes that “all dreamlike conditions, whether due to fatigue, fever, or toxins, are abaissement phenomena” (SL, para. 511).