Fisher King Press is pleased to
announce the publication of
The Dream and its Amplification
"In the case of a word which you have never come
across before, you try to find parallel text passages... where the word also
occurs... If you make the new text a readable whole, you say, 'Now we can read
it.' That is how we learned to red hieroglyphics and cuneiform inscriptions and
that is how we can read dreams."
C. G. Jung, The
Tavistock Lectures
The Dream and Its Amplification unveils the language of the psyche that speaks to us in our dreams. We all dream at least 4-6 times each night yet remember very few. Those that rise to the surface of our conscious awareness beckon to be understood, like a letter addressed to us that arrives by post. Why would we not open it? The difficulty is in understanding what the dream symbols and images mean.
Through amplification, C. G. Jung formulated a method of unveiling the deeper meaning of symbolic images. This becomes particularly important when the image does not carry a personal meaning or significance and is not part of a person's everyday life.
Fourteen Jungian Analysts from around the world have contributed chapters to this book on areas of special interest to them in their work with dreams. This offers the seasoned dream worker as well as the novice great insight into the meaning of the dream and its amplification.
Contents and Contributors
I. The
Amplified World of Dreams - Erel Shalit and Nancy Swift Furlotti
II. Pane
e’ Vino: Learning to Discern the Objective, Archetypal Nature of Dreams -
Michael Conforti
III. Amplification:
A Personal Narrative - Thomas Singer
IV. Redeeming
the Feminine: Eros and the World Soul - Nancy Qualls-Corbett
V. Wild
Cats and Crowned Snakes: Archetypal Agents of Feminine Initiation - Nancy
Swift Furlotti
VI. A
Dream in Arcadia - Christian Gaillard
VII. Muse
of the Moon: Poetry from the Dreamtime - Naomi Ruth Lowinsky
VIII. Dreaming
the Face of the Earth: Myth, Culture, and Dreams of the Mayan Shaman - Kenneth
Kimmel
IX. Coal
or Gold? The Symbolic Understanding of Alpine Legends - Gotthilf Isler
X. Sophia’s
Dreaming Body: The Night Sky as Alchemical Mirror - Monika Wikman
XI. The
Dream Always Follows the Mouth: Jewish Approaches to Dreaming - Henry
Abramovitch
XII. Bi-Polarity,
Compensation, and the Transcendent Function in Dreams and Visionary Experience:
A Jungian Examination of Boehme’s Mandala - Kathryn Madden
XIII. The
Dream As Gnostic Myth - Ronald Schenk
XIV. Four
Hands in the Crossroads: Amplification in Times of Crisis - Erel Shalit
XV. Dreams
and Sudden Death - Gilda Frantz
From ‘The Amplified World of Dreams’
The
dream is a little hidden door in the innermost and most secret recesses of the
soul, opening into that cosmic night which was psyche long before there was any
ego-consciousness, and which will remain psyche no matter how far out
ego-consciousness extends.
—C. G. Jung
Humans have always expressed themselves in images of
their outer and inner worlds—seemingly a characteristic of our genetic
structure. The dream is a communication from the psyche in the form of images
arising from the realms of the unconscious, beyond conscious ego control. The
deeper layers within us speak to us nightly through dreams, mostly appearing
during the stage of REM (rapid eye movement) sleep, usually at the end of each
of the four to six sleep cycles a night. Whether we remember our dreams or not,
they affect us.
Constantly
at work, the psyche brings forth that which is positive and creative, as well
as all that is negative and destructive in the depth of our soul. The psyche
may guide us or lead us astray; it behooves us to consciously take part in
determining which direction we are led. We participate by attempting to
understand the meaning of our dreams and by discerning the inner voices that
speak to us to distinguish between the inner figures of wisdom and the ghosts
behind our complexes.
In
this book we focus on the amplification method that Jung developed to uncover
the meaning of the dream, a procedure that reflects his approach to the psyche
and the understanding of dreams. Amplification of images from the objective
layer of the psyche is important if one is to achieve a more complete picture
and meaning of a dream, in conjunction with the personal experience and
associations. The chapters, written by prominent Jungian analysts, illustrate
the many ways in which the meaning of dreams can be deepened by a variety of
approaches to amplification. Each of the contributors to this volume has chosen
a particular direction, whether art and poetry, myth and fairytale, culture and
religion, or initiation to the stages of our life, to paint a kaleidoscopic
gestalt of the dream and its amplification.
Product Details
Paperback:
220 pages (Large Page Format 9.25" x 7.5")Publisher: Fisher King Press; 1st edition (June 15, 2013)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 1-926715-89-6
ISBN-13: 978-1-926715-89-6
Also available as an eBook
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