Dreams: A Study of the Dreams of Jung, Descartes, Socrates, and Other Historical Figures (C. G. Jung Foundation Books Series Book 9)

Dreams: A Study of the Dreams of Jung, Descartes, Socrates, and Other Historical Figures (C. G. Jung Foundation Books Series Book 9)

<P>These<br />collected essays by the distinguished psychoanalyst Marie-Louise von Franz<br />offer fascinating insights into the study of dreams, not only psychologically,<br />but also from historical, religious, and philosophical points of view. In the<br />first two chapters, the author offers general explanations of the nature of<br />dreams and their use in analysis. She examines how dreams can be used in the<br />development of self-knowledge and describes how C. G. Jung worked with his own<br />dreams, and the fateful ways in which they were entwined with the course of his<br />life.<br /><br /><P>The<br />rest of the book records and interprets dreams of historical personages:<br />Socrates, Descartes, Themistocles and Hannibal, and the mothers of Saint<br />Augustine, Saint Bernard of Clairvaux, and Saint Dominic. Connections are<br />revealed between the personal and family histories of the dreamers and<br />individual and collective mores of their times. <br /><I>Dreams</I><br />includes writings long out of print or never before available in English<br />translation.