Dream analysis

29/03/2026

Just as man, as a social being, cannot in the long run exist without a tie to the community, so the individual will never

find the real justification for his existence, and his own spiritual and moral autonomy, anywhere except in an extramundane

principle capable of relativizing the overpowering influence of external factors.



The individual who is not anchored in God can offer no resistance on his own resources to the physical and moral blandishments of the world. For this he needs the evidence of inner, transcendent experience which alone can protect him from the otherwise inevitable submersion in the mass.



Merely intellectual or even moral insight into the stultification and moral irresponsibility of the mass man is a negative recognition only and amounts to not much more than a wavering on the road to the atomization of the individual. It lacks the driving force of religious conviction, since it is merely rational.



The dictator State has one great advantage over bourgeois reason: along with the individual it swallows up his religious forces. The State has taken the place of God; that is why, seen from this angle, the socialist dictatorships are religions and State slavery is a form of worship.



But the religious function cannot be dislocated and falsified in this way without giving rise to secret doubts, which are immediately repressed so as to avoid conflict with the prevailing trend towards mass-mindedness.



The result, as always in such cases, is overcompensation in the form of fanaticism, which in its turn is used as a weapon for stamping out the least flicker of opposition. Free opinion is stifled and moral decision ruthlessly suppressed, on the plea that the end justifies the means, even the vilest.



The policy of the State is exalted to a creed, the leader or party boss becomes a demigod beyond good and evil, and his votaries are honored as heroes, martyrs, apostles, missionaries. There is only one truth and beside it no other. It is sacrosanct and above criticism. Anyone who thinks differently is a heretic, who, as we know from history, is threatened with all manner of unpleasant things.



Only the party boss, who holds the political power in his hands, can interpret the State doctrine authentically, and he does so just as suits him. ~Carl Jung, The Undiscovered Self, Page 14-15

21/02/2026

“The most dangerous psychological mistake is the projection of the shadow on to others; this is the root of almost all conflicts. Knowing your own darkness is the best method for dealing with the darknesses of other people. No tree, it is said, can grow to heaven unless its roots reach down to hell. The most terrifying thing is to accept oneself completely. One does not become enlightened by imagining figures of light, but by making the darkness conscious." ~Carl Jung

Image: "The Tree of Life" (1922) from Carl Jung's The Red Book.

06/02/2026

17/01/2026

Here is the second dream: "I am in a great hurry because I am going on a journey. I hunt up my baggage, but cannot find it. Time flies, and the train will

must take first place in any discussion of the applicability of dream-analysis to the treatment of neuroses.



The dream gives a true picture of the subjective state, while the conscious mind denies that this state exists, or recognizes it only grudgingly. The patient's con

sciousego could see no reason why he should not go steadily forward; he continued his struggle for advancement, refusing to admit the fact which subsequent

events made all too plain-that he was actually at the end of his tether.



When, in such cases, we listen to the dictates of the conscious mind, we are always in doubt. We can draw opposite conclusions from the patient's anamnesis. After all, the private soldier may carry a marshal's baton in his knapsack, and many a son of poor parents has achieved the highest success.



Why should it not be so in my patient's case? Since my judgement is fallible, why should my own conjecture be more dependable than his At this point the dream comes in as the expression of an involuntary psychic process not controlled by the conscious outlook. It presents the subjective state as it really is.



It has no respect for my conjectures or for the patient's views as to how things should be, but simply tells how the matter stands. I have therefore made it a rule to put dreams on a plane with physiological fact.



If sugar appears in the urine, then the urine contains sugar, and not albumen or urobilin or something else that I may have been led to expect. This is to say that I take dreams as facts that are invaluable for diagnosis. ~Carl Jung, Modern Man in Search of a Soul, Page 3-4

12/01/2026

People do not realize just how much they are putting at risk when they don't accept what life presents them with, the questions and tasks that life sets them.



When they resolve to spare themselves the pain and suffering they owe to their nature.



In so doing, they refuse to pay life's dues and for this very reason, life then often leads them astray.



If we don't accept our own destiny, a different kind of suffering takes its place: a neurosis develops, and I believe that that life which we have to live is not as bad as a neurosis.



If I have to suffer, then let it be from my reality.



A neurosis is a much greater curse! In general, a neurosis is a replacement for an evasion, an unconscious desire to cheat life, to avoid something. ~Carl Jung, Reflections on the Life and Dreams of C.G. Jung, Page 15

10/01/2026

The soul demands your folly; not your wisdom.



Perhaps you think that a man who consecrates his life to research leads a spiritual life and that his soul lives in / larger measure than anyone else’s. But such a life is also external, just as external as the life of a man who lives for outer things.



To be sure, such a scholar does not live for outer things but for outer thoughts-not for himself but for his object.

If you say of a man that he has totally lost himself to the outer and wasted his years in excess, you must also say the same of this old man.



He has thrown himself away in all the books and thoughts of others. Consequently his soul is in great need, it must humiliate itself and run into every stranger’s room to beg for the recognition that he fails to give her.



Therefore you see those old scholars running after recognition in a ridiculous and undignified manner. They are offended if their name is not mentioned, cast down if another one says the same thing in a better way; irreconcilable if someone alters their views in the least.



Go to the meetings of scholars and you will see them, these lamentable old men with their great merits and their starved souls famished for recognition and their thirst which can never be slaked.



The soul demands your folly; not your wisdom. ~Carl Jung, Red Book, Page 264.

26/12/2025

If one knows about all the evil possibilities within oneself then one develops a kind of second sight or capacity for getting a whiff of the same thing in other people.

A jealous woman who has realized her own jealousy will always recognize jealousy in the eyes of another woman.

The only way, therefore, not to walk through the world like an innocent well-brought-up fool, protected by father and mother from the evils of this world and therefore cheated and lied to and stolen from at every corner, is to go down into the depths of one’s own evil, which enables one usually to develop the instinctual recognition of corresponding elements in other people. ~Marie-Louise von Franz, Individuation in Fairy Tales, Page 15

23/12/2025

It has become abundantly clear to me that life can flow forward only along the path of the gradient.



But there is no energy unless there is a tension of opposites; hence it is necessary to discover the opposite to the attitude of the conscious mind.



It is interesting to see how this compensation by opposites also plays its part in the historical theories of neurosis: Freud's theory espoused Eros, Adler's the will to power.



Logically, the opposite of love is hate, and of Eros, Phobos (fear); but psychologically it is the will to power.



Where love reigns, there is no will to power; and where the will to power is paramount, love is lacking.



The one is but the shadow of the other: the man who adopts the standpoint of Eros finds his compensatory opposite in the will to power, and that of the man who puts the accent on power is Eros.



Seen from the one-sided point of view of the conscious attitude, the shadow is an inferior component of the personality and is consequently repressed through intensive resistance.



But the repressed content must be made conscious so as to produce a tension of opposites, without which no forward movement is possible.



The conscious mind is on top, the shadow underneath, and just as high always longs for low and hot for cold, so all consciousness, perhaps without being aware of it, seeks its unconscious opposite, lacking which it is doomed to stagnation, congestion, and ossification.



Life is born only of the spark of opposites. ~Carl Jung, CW 7, Para 78

28/11/2025

"The spirit of evil is fear, negation, the adversary who opposes life in its struggle for eternal duration and thwarts every great deed, who infuses into the body the poison of weakness and age through the treacherous bite of the serpent; he is the spirit of regression, who threatens us with bo***ge to the mother and with dissolution and extinction in the unconscious"

CW of C.G. Jung Vol. 5 Symbols of Transformation