The rational, of course, doubts the credibility of a dreamer, and even if he gets some proof, he still doesn't believe the dream. Traditional Jews, Christians and Muslims, do not have that kind of skepticism, nor do the Buddhist or Hindu have a problem with dreams and visions. The Bible mentions 70 occasions of important dreams, The Babylonian Talmud, which is written between 600-200 B.C., have four chapter that are devoted to dreams, and a great part of the Quran was revealed for Muhammad in dreams.
Even if dreams are universal, their imagery and the figures that appears in them, are mostly associated with their own religious beliefs and ideal in the cultures where they are dreamed. It is not common a Christian dreams about Buddha, or a Muslim dreams about a Chassidic Jew or vice versa. Dreams are affected by suggestion and by cultural factors, but their inherent power have shown itself for human societies by all times in history. Before the Roman times, no one was spending time for a systematic study of dreams.
An exemple that might be a contradiction, is a dream an old Christian woman had, and she told me about it yesterday. She dreamed she was back at her childhood's house. A little girl was together with her when a group of Chassidic Jewish men came to see her. She didn't want them to visit her, and she closed the door right in front of them and locked it.
I believe this woman's dream has its origin from fear of the Corona virus. She's familiar with the Apocalyptic stories, and she knows the Jews and Israel play a big part in the coming events according to the prophecies. The little girl is probably herself in young age when she listened to the Bible stories. The Chassid Jews are a symbol for the threat she feels, because of the danger with the Corona virus, and that's why she locked the door for prevention.
The unconscious isn't something that was discovered by Sigmund Freund, it was a hypothesis that appeared between 1600-1800. Before that, both the ancient Egyptians and the Hindu were aware about different level of conscioness. The hypothesus emerged more and more during the romantic movement in Germany between 1700-1800. Poets like Schiller and Goethe believed in the unconscioness process but saw it differently.
Another influence was a theory called the Androgyne, the romantic belief in the human nature's fundamental bisexuality. This influenced C G Jung in the beginning of the 1900s whith the archetypes he called the anima and the animus, originated from the collective unconscious. Jung was primarily most influenced by Carl Gustav Carus, who lived between 1789-1869. In his book, Psyche, he defined the evolution of the soul from the unconscious to the conscious state of mind. He thought it was through the unconscious we remain in contact with the rest of the world.
Friedrich Nietzsche's philosophy was a source for Freud, Adler and Jung. However, Jung later ended his relation with Alfred Adler(1870-1937), who also was a collegue to Freud. Nietzsche regarded the unconscious as a place for passions and instincts, and dreams are also an important part for the evolution of the soul.
Even if dreams are universal, their imagery and the figures that appears in them, are mostly associated with their own religious beliefs and ideal in the cultures where they are dreamed. It is not common a Christian dreams about Buddha, or a Muslim dreams about a Chassidic Jew or vice versa. Dreams are affected by suggestion and by cultural factors, but their inherent power have shown itself for human societies by all times in history. Before the Roman times, no one was spending time for a systematic study of dreams.
An exemple that might be a contradiction, is a dream an old Christian woman had, and she told me about it yesterday. She dreamed she was back at her childhood's house. A little girl was together with her when a group of Chassidic Jewish men came to see her. She didn't want them to visit her, and she closed the door right in front of them and locked it.
I believe this woman's dream has its origin from fear of the Corona virus. She's familiar with the Apocalyptic stories, and she knows the Jews and Israel play a big part in the coming events according to the prophecies. The little girl is probably herself in young age when she listened to the Bible stories. The Chassid Jews are a symbol for the threat she feels, because of the danger with the Corona virus, and that's why she locked the door for prevention.
The unconscious isn't something that was discovered by Sigmund Freund, it was a hypothesis that appeared between 1600-1800. Before that, both the ancient Egyptians and the Hindu were aware about different level of conscioness. The hypothesus emerged more and more during the romantic movement in Germany between 1700-1800. Poets like Schiller and Goethe believed in the unconscioness process but saw it differently.
Another influence was a theory called the Androgyne, the romantic belief in the human nature's fundamental bisexuality. This influenced C G Jung in the beginning of the 1900s whith the archetypes he called the anima and the animus, originated from the collective unconscious. Jung was primarily most influenced by Carl Gustav Carus, who lived between 1789-1869. In his book, Psyche, he defined the evolution of the soul from the unconscious to the conscious state of mind. He thought it was through the unconscious we remain in contact with the rest of the world.
Friedrich Nietzsche's philosophy was a source for Freud, Adler and Jung. However, Jung later ended his relation with Alfred Adler(1870-1937), who also was a collegue to Freud. Nietzsche regarded the unconscious as a place for passions and instincts, and dreams are also an important part for the evolution of the soul.
Freud's famous work, The Interpretations of Dreams, came after his dream in July 24th 1895. He called it "The Dream About Irma's injection". Irma was a sick patient. He understood his dream was a fulfillment of a hidden desire, and knew that this revelation would be the key to unlock the door to the unconscious. The enigma of the dreams, that so many had wanted to solve during thousand of years, now had got its answer.
Freud began to use free associations. He knew it was central to be free, and let the thoughts wander away, wherever they wanted, and not to censur or reject them, no matter how obscene or absurde they were. His intuition told him that it had to be the same way with the dreams. Feelings or experiences that are threatening or dangerous, are closed from the conscious as a defence, they are repressed. If a wish or a desire is forbidden, it is not accepted by the censor and therefore expressed and diguised in the dream as a symbol. A wish came true in the dream.
So, therefore his dream about his patient Irma, was a fulfillment of a wish to help her and its motif was a wish. It is a bit surprising in this case, Freud was silent about the sexual importance in his own dream. He mostly thought it was sexual frustration behind that caused problems, especially female issues. Freud's dream actually could be a conflict between his own lust to this widow and his ethical code for proper conduct, which prevented him.
Freud began to use free associations. He knew it was central to be free, and let the thoughts wander away, wherever they wanted, and not to censur or reject them, no matter how obscene or absurde they were. His intuition told him that it had to be the same way with the dreams. Feelings or experiences that are threatening or dangerous, are closed from the conscious as a defence, they are repressed. If a wish or a desire is forbidden, it is not accepted by the censor and therefore expressed and diguised in the dream as a symbol. A wish came true in the dream.
So, therefore his dream about his patient Irma, was a fulfillment of a wish to help her and its motif was a wish. It is a bit surprising in this case, Freud was silent about the sexual importance in his own dream. He mostly thought it was sexual frustration behind that caused problems, especially female issues. Freud's dream actually could be a conflict between his own lust to this widow and his ethical code for proper conduct, which prevented him.
During the six years of friendship between Freud and Jung, both were absolutely convinced the importance of the unconscious process for the origin and treatment of the mental illness. Eventually, they separated, because of their differences. Mainly because of the importance of sexuality according to Freud's teaching, but also because Jung actually listened to his patient's stories. He saw that the schizophrenic's delusions and hallucinations, were similar to other patients, but also reminded about the content from myths and fairytales from different people on the earth.
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