Dream Interpretation Ancient and Modern

Notes from the Seminar Given in 1936–1941 - Updated Edition

C. G. Jung, John Peck, Lorenz Jung, Maria Meyer-Grass, Ernst Falzeder, Tony Woolfson

• Publisher: Princeton University Press
• Year: 2014
• Print ISBN:
  9780691173405
  9780691159454
• eBook ISBN:
  9781400852796
• Topic: Psychology
• Subtopic: History & Theory in Psychology
• Index: Psychology

Jung's landmark seminar sessions on dream interpretation and its history

From 1936 to 1941, C. G. Jung gave a four-part seminar series in Zurich on children's dreams and the historical literature on dream interpretation. This book completes the two-part publication of this landmark seminar, presenting the sessions devoted to dream interpretation and its history. Here we witness Jung as both clinician and teacher: impatient and sometimes authoritarian but also witty, wise, and intellectually daring, a man who, though brilliant, could be vulnerable, uncertain, and humbled by life's mysteries. These sessions open a window on Jungian dream interpretation in practice, as Jung examines a long dream series from the Renaissance physician Girolamo Cardano. They also provide the best example of group supervision by Jung the educator. Presented here in an inspired English translation commissioned by the Philemon Foundation, these sessions reveal Jung as an impassioned teacher in dialogue with his students as he developed and refined the discipline of analytical psychology.

An invaluable document of perhaps the most important psychologist of the twentieth century at work, this splendid book is the fullest representation of Jung's interpretations of dream literatures, filling a critical gap in his collected works.

Table of contents

• Cover Page
• Title Page
• Copyright Page
• Contents
• Note to the English Edition
• Acknowledgments
• Preface
• Introduction by the Original Editors
• Calendar Contents for the Full Seminar, Winter Term, 1936/37–Winter Term, 1940/41 (coordinated with Children’s Dreams Seminar)
• Introduction
• A. Older Literature on Dream Interpretation (Commencing Winter Term 1936/37)
• B. The Enlightenment and Romanticism
• C. The Modern Period
• D. Visions and Dreams
• Bibliography
• Index