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"The
dream comes in as the expression of an involuntary,
unconscious psychic process beyond the control of
the conscious mind. It shows the inner truth and reality
of the patient as it really is: not as I conjecture
it to be, and not as he would like it to be, but as
it is. I have therefore made it a rule to regard dreams
as I regard physiological facts: if sugar appears
in the urine, then the urine contains sugar, and not
albumen or urobilin or something else that might fit
in better with my expectations. That is to say, I
take dreams as diagnostically valuable facts."
CW
16, § 304
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LUCIFER,
THE BRINGER OF LIGHT
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"Dreams contain images and thought associations which
we do not create with conscious intent. They arise
spontaneously without our assistance and are representatives
of a psychic activity withdrawn from our arbitrary
will. Therefore the dream is, properly speaking,
a highly objective, natural product of the psyche,
from which we might expect indications, or at least
hints, about certain basic trends in the psychic
process. Now, since the psychic process, like any
other life process, is not just a causal sequence,
but is also a process with a teleological orientation,
we might expect dreams to give us certain indicia
about the objective causality as well as about the
objective tendencies, precisely because dreams are
nothing less than self representations of the psychic
life process."
Carl
G. Jung, CW
7, § 210
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