Anxiety and the Postmodern Condition

The chapter ' Four Hands in the Crossroads: Amplification in Times of Crisis'  in  The Dream and its Amplification ,  discusses dreams and amplification in times of crisis and turmoil, observing and explaining the increased synchronicity that may take place under such circumstances. The upstretched hands of Tanit at Tel Hazor. Collection of Israel Antiquities Authority, photo copyright Israel Museum, Jerusalem The following is excerpted from the introduction to the chapter: In amplification, we reach out beyond the boundaries of our ego, beyond the realm of ego consciousness, which by definition is temporary and limited. We humbly admit that our ego-identity is not the one and only, the grand-all and be-all. By amplification we recognize that the images that arise from the unconscious have a life of their own, and that the world of matter and psyche exists in itself, even when out of the beholder’s sight. The “I” of my awareness is not the grand creator o...

    A Giant Dream © is from an original painting by Howard Fox www.howardfox.com 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 amplifi...