Another take on dreams

I am going to be teaching a course on dreams in the fall at our Senior College. So I decided to read a book someone mentioned to me a while ago -- Yorem Kaufman's The Way of the Image. It is a lovely little book of essays about dreams, images and therapy. The first 2 essays, "The Way of the Image Part 1" and part 2 are about his way of looking at dreams and about how he works with dreams in therapy, an actual technique essay, that rarest of Jungian works! Then in the 3rd essays he writes about the analyst as he or she appears in dreams. These three essays are rich and deeply rewarding for anyone seriously interested in dreams and working with them.  A few juicy bits from Kaufman: "Everything that has ever been created was preceded by an image— streets, a blender, theory of relativity. Thus, we have the power of images for immense good or horrible destruction. All the history of mankind is, in essence, the unfolding of a series of images.""...every individual has within themselves a unique set of images peculiarly their own. They speak ultimately to them. Although such images may be shared with others, and those others may be affected, they will not be affected equally, and they will not share in the transformative energy to the same degree. It is both the science and art of analysis to find this unique imaginal language for every analysand."
Source: Jung At Heart - Category: Psychiatrists and Psychologists Source Type: blogs