Jung: Applied

The living practice — reading the psyche's own language

A course on the thought of Carl Jung.

Course outline

1. The Dream That Corrects — My dream theory, against Freud's: the dream is not primarily a disguised wish but a *compensation* — the self-regulating psyche emphasizing the side the conscious attitude has neglected, to restore…
2. The Symbol and Its Parallels — What a symbol is, and how to read one. A *symbol* is not a coded sign for a known thing but the best possible expression of something not yet fully known; so you read it not by reducing it to a cause…
3. Meeting the Other Within — Some unconscious contents must be engaged directly, awake, through *active imagination*. When a conscious position and its unconscious opposite are both held in tension without either suppressing the…
4. Two Ways to Read a Dream — The single most practical distinction in dream-reading: a dream-figure may be read on the *objective plane* — as the real person it resembles — or on the *subjective plane* — as a personified part of…
5. The Afternoon of Life — The psyche's developmental arc: the morning of life rightly serves outward adaptation — ego, persona, place, family — but at the *meridian* the task reverses. The afternoon of life asks a turn…

Part of the Symposium course library.