Dream Symbols and Carl Jung
December 10, 2007 – 8:17 pm
Carl Jung was my teacher since I exactly followed his difficult method, by reading each one of his books more than 5 times until I could understand them completely. At the same time, I was also interpreting my own dreams, which helped me really understand what he was talking about. However, my merit as the one who continued his work was given to me first of all thanks to my own literature. The book I wrote after a terrible car accident I suffered when I was 15 years old was in fact written by the unconscious that produces the dreams and is responsible for many artistic and religious manifestations. I, the writer, didn’t really understand the deeper meaning of my words. This book gave me a map, a key, everything I needed in order to better understand the dreams’ meaning than Carl Jung, my mentor.
Using his method I could understand the dreams and the symbolic meaning of my own literature, written after a tragic event after which I lost my faith and became an atheist, until I got married, when I was 22 years old and I regained my faith, although I didn’t care much about the existence of God. I only started accepting the possibility of his existence, while before I was even aggressive against religion and their believers.
I wrote this book over a span of 6-and-a-half years. I even got tired of it, I didn’t care about it and later, I simply abandoned it since I decided to live in Greece and it was written in Portuguese. A Brazilian friend tried to publish it in Brazil and found where I could do that but I had to pay for the publication and I didn’t want to invest in that book that was not a common one, also because I was far from the country… My friend even said that it was not the kind of book that people would like to read, because it was too complicated. It was not a popular book. It was a mythological romance, and it was very strange, written with many complicated words. It was at the same time very classical and very modern. I characterized it as a “philosophical romance” and even had the intention to start a new genre based on my definition of the type of work I wrote.
But I was living in Greece and had other plans with my husband. So, this book remained forgotten for 7-and-a-half years, when suddenly I understood that I had to reread it, after learning how to interpret my dreams very well. I had even started to write a complicated book in order to prove to the world that the psychiatrist and psychologist Carl Jung was the only one who discovered the only correct method for the interpretation of dreams, when I reread my strange romance entitled “The philanthropic beggar”.
Thanks to this book, I could directly and very easily interpret a dream
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One Response to “Dream Symbols and Carl Jung”
Very thought provoking, thanks, I will read over Jungs books again.
By Dream Symbols on Dec 18, 2007