Working with dreams : initiation into the soul's speaking about itself /: initiation into the soul's speaking about itself. (2020)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Wolfgang Giegerich.
• Authors: Giegerich, Wolfgang, 1942-
• Contents: I. What is a dream? The dream as a conscious phenomenon. The dream as text Ontological rupture The dream as interpretation "Ontology" of the dream-internal world 1. The seeing of a dream. 2. Mutability and malleability. 3. Shadowiness. 4. Lacunality. 5. ‘Just in time’ apparition, not substantial being. 6. Concepts cloaked in sensible shapes. II. Why Dreams? The significance of dreams in therapy a) The soul’s speaking. b) "I do not know the answer either." c) Dreams versus sandplay and painting. d) Listening to patients’ stories as if they were dreams? When patients don’t dream III. The proper attitude towards the dream Crossing the river. The standpoint of soul The three stances to "crossing the river" and the three forms of otherness Psychotherapy—the making of psychology The dream as corpse. Not knowing as methodological starting point The necessity of my going under IV. The dream interpreter Whom does the therapist address when working on dreams with a patient? Who in the therapist interprets the dream? My interpretation. The Now of dream interpretation V. Interpreting the actual text of dreams "Object level", "subject level" and the objective psyche Trap: Dream interpretation as the dream’s translation into the terms of one’s psychological theory Getting started: Beginning with the subject . Circumambulating the dream Turning to the "object": The dream as subject and self Inner infinity and the wildness of the living image Actually working with dreams Discerning the proper horizon of and context for individual dream elements Narcissistic blow: "It has a say now, not you!" Or: The patient as obstacle The dream-I The dream-I and the Other 1. Necessary distinctions and decisions. 2. The antagonists. 3. The soul’s via negativa . 4. How to view the ego defenses in dreams. 5. Opposition as obvious conflict between Two and the dialectic of successful flight. 6. Opposition as the dream-I’s malgré lui doing the other’s bidding. Information Classification: General 7. Opposition as antithetical meaning of one and the same. 8. Opposition as impugning the known truth. Psychic and biological processes in dreams Semantic content versus syntactic structure VI. By way of one example: A dream and its psychological interpretation VII. The dream and the patient The therapy situation as impairment of dream interpretation. Absolute-negative interiorization of the patient into the dream "So the dream shows me that . And now?" Terrible dream images, unbearable for the patient? VIII. Miscellaneous questions The types and topics of dreams Does the dream have a message for us? Archetypal dream motifs. Numinous, religious dreams? Whose dream is it? "Big" dreams The dream series Excursus: Can one learn to interpret dreams? IX. The ulterior purpose of and assignment for dream interpretation: From Natura to Ars X. Beyond working with dreams Pushing off to the dimension of the soul’s real life
• Edition: 1st
• Publisher Details: London : Routledge
• Publication Date: 2020
• Extent: 1 online resource
• Subjects: 154.63; Dreams; Jungian psychology; Soul
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781000221534; 9781000221473; 9781000221503; 9781003058243
• Related ISBNs: 9780367525101; 9780367525132
• Notes: Note: Includes bibliographical references and index.; Note: Description based on CIP data; resource not viewed.
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