Dream interpretation with Tarot
There is a strong connection between the analytical psychology of Jung and the Tarot. Jung paid great attention to the Tarot and the synchronicity phenomenon.
Jung and Tarot: An Archetypal Journey I have recently read the awesome book “Jung and the Tarot: an archetypal journey“. A dear friend of mine, Giuseppe Fojeni gave it to me years ago. It is an essay written by Sallie Nichols back in 1980. Jung and Tarot: approaching Tarot in a Jungian perspective It is … Read more
Seminar invitation Seminar on Dreams and Tarot in a jungian perspective, September 26, 2014 Coordinators Giuseppe Fojeni (psychologist and psychotherapist) and Massimiliano Colosimo. Dream interpretation can find an echo, sometimes extraordinarily synchronic, in the examination of the symbolism of Tarot. The seminar presents some cases in which an integrated reading of the two areas, dreams … Read more
Recurring themes in dreams We can often find recurring themes in dreams, such us recurring locations, elements, or characters. But the various forms and shapes with which they recur in dreams makes it difficult to link them to their deeper symbolic meaning. Those symbolic elements very often revolve around the archetypes described by Carl Gustav … Read more
Dreams of being unable to move How many times you dream of being unable to move? Or not being able to escape from danger? We are talking about those dreams in which we try to perform an action but we feel stuck, immobilized. As if we were entwined by a superior force. A typical example … Read more
Animals in dreams: an example In this article I quote the excerpt from a dream of a young lady, to focus in particular on the motif of animals in dreams. Here is the dream as described by the dreamer: “I’m in a garden. I stare at it with a trusted person by my side. In … Read more
Dreams about drowning and water symbolism Here is another of those very intense and unpleasant recurring dreams: dreams about drowning, dreaming of floods and “tsunamis”, dreaming of sinking into the sea. First of all, water in dreams represents emotions, something we cannot contain and control. Dreaming of drowning generally means that we tend to exclude … Read more
The 4 suits of the Tarot and the jungian psychological types Jungian psychological types and Tarot suits seem to be symbolically connected. The characteristics of the four psychological types are summarized briefly in a sublime way by Jung himself: Sensation is that psychological function which, through the senses, tells us that something exists; the Thinking … Read more
Jung and UFO dreams UFO dreams or dreaming flying saucers is a phenomenon rich in meaning. In one of his last essays, “A modern myth“, Carl Gustav Jung examines the phenomenon of UFOs. Without questioning the fact that they may be real objects, Jung deepens the psychological value of the phenomenon. Jung finds in UFOs … Read more
The Shadow in Jung’s Dream: a short video commenting on a famous youth dream by Carl Gustav Jung.
Carl Gustav Jung’s youthful dream of the “Brocken Specter” is an example of a recurring chase dream. Dreaming of being chased is an archetypal theme linked to the relationship with our “Shadow”.
The video explains the meaning of the dream according to the Tarot language.
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