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Our Dreams Can Also Provide Help
An important aspect of Carl Jung’s introspective woman, she said she would
work included using dreams to show us think about it.
attitudes that are the exact opposite of
what we identify with, because dreams The Compensating Dream
are often compensatory. Here’s a true Things got worse before they got better.
story that will make this more clear. Jennifer resented me for pointing it out,
but because I was a guest in her home,
A woman I will call Jennifer had a she couldn’t exactly get rid of me. Then
successful import/export business. She one night during all this, Jennifer had
hired one girl in particular whom I will a dream. She dreamed that Susan, her
call Susan. After working with Susan for employee, was walking toward her with
awhile, she could not stand the sight of a cigarette in her hand. Susan took the
her. Jennifer described this employee as a cigarette and swallowed it. Jennifer took
person who exaggerated her importance this to mean that her dream was showing
and talked incessantly about “who” she her that Susan was obnoxious. “She’s
knew — the mayor of the city, the richest even swallowing cigarettes,” she said
people in the area, etc. She bragged to me — which would be a very literal
constantly about her sales ability and interpretation. The unconscious gave her
generally repulsed Jennifer. It started this dream to show her this figure was
to drive her nuts, so much so that, inside her, that she was blowing a lot of
although this girl was doing her job and hot air and she needed to swallow it. In
doing it well, Jennifer wanted to fire other words, she needed to own it.
her. She couldn’t stand Susan anymore
and told me so. I was visiting her and It was a great example of how the
her family for 3 months. While there, I compensatory dream was making a
noticed Jennifer doing the exact things statement to correct the denial of her
she was accusing Susan of doing. Her conscious mind. From studying Jung’s
teenage daughter, Amy, and I talked theory of dreams, I knew that dream
about it, as it became obvious to both of figures often represent your Shadow,
us, and together we told her. At first, she especially when they are a person you
hotly denied it, but because she was an can’t stand.
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