Jungian Counselling

03/12/2023

Children’s Dreams: Notes from the Seminar given in 1936-1940, pg. 19

14/04/2023

"...your wife called the nurses in the middle of the night to say that she saw her parents on a boat outside the window beckoning her to come. I know this may not make sense,” he went on, “but we see this repeatedly in our patients. When patients report a vision like this, they almost always die within a day or two. I’m so sorry.”

“In a high-tech, evidence-driven world of contemporary medicine, it was a dream that led a physician to conclude that my wife was dying. How was that possible?”

11/04/2023

15/12/2022

Jung wrote that all dreams are essentially compensatory; Edward Edinger, a first-generation Jungian, defines two types of compensation in his commentaries on Answer to Job:

1. "If the consciousness of the dreamer is decidedly one-side in certain respects, then the dream will have a marked tendency to compensate that one-sidedness by over-emphasizing the contrary, the opposite. One is most apt to find that situation among patients at the very beginning of analysis. Often, they come in with one-sided conscious standpoints."

2. "The other kind of compensation really isn’t compensation strictly speaking, at all. It is rather a situation in which the individual ego is ignorant and innocent of a whole layer of meaning, and in that case, the dream brings up meanings that are objectively true and that compensate, so to speak, for the innocent ignorance but not in the usual sense of compensation. The dream, then, is more an objective description of the way things are. I think as analysis proceeds this is the more usual kind of dream though the more ordinary compensatory dreams (of the first type) will also appear occasionally, especially when the patient gets caught in a particularly one-sided conscious attitude."

26/12/2021

“Individuation is a direction, not a goal that is attained in this life. The most we can do, writes Jung, is to ‘dream the myth onwards,’ realising that ‘whatever explanation and interpretation does to it, we do to our own souls as well.’” Hall, J. The Jungian Experience, pg. 43; Jung, CG. The Archetypes and the Collective Unconscious, CW 9i, par. 271.

15/11/2021

Edward Edinger was a first generation Jungian Analyst, third only to Jung and Von Franz. This lecture explains how consciousness is generated by the union or tension between opposites, and is one of the best talks on the subject; indeed, it is this tension that we look for when analysing a dream, or when encountering a symbol.

The New Myth Of Meaning - Edward Edinger - Full Dak Screen Lecture. Dr. Edward F. Edinger was a leading Jungian analyst whose books on the interplay between ...