The Lions are Coming: The Healing Image In Jungian Dreamwork

The Lions are Coming: The Healing Image In Jungian Dreamwork

Marika Henriques

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A contribution by the author in British Journal of Psychotherapy, 20(4) pp.513-526

“Here we are all, by day; by night we’re hurled By dreams, each one, into a several world. “

This article demonstrates a Jungian interpretation of dreams by describing the working through of four dreams of a patient. She came to therapy deeply depressed and suicidal. She gradually gained good experiences of the unconscious through her vivid dreams. The paper describes how the transformative power of dream images brought healing for her, how as the images changed she changed with them.

The First part of the article outlines some Jungian concepts as an introduction to the actual dreamwork. Jung observed that the psyche does not work with concepts but manifests through images. They are the language of the psyche, the living aspects of a person’s innermost being. As Jung put it: “concepts are coined and negotiable values, images are life. “While concepts can be discussed and talked about images speak for themselves.

Therefore the dreamwork is approached in a poetic way and reads more like a story than an academic exposition.

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