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39: Carl Jung & Alchemy • Part I: Dreams, Art, & Synchronicity

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The Dream of a Crusader

Jung writes that he went about analyzing this double dream immediately, as it felt significant. Jung proceeds to elaborate on his thought process for analyzing this dream. As you listen, take note of how Jung treats the scenes and characters in the dream. He starts with the first half of the dream, the part about the customs official, who was a ghost. In connection with customs, I at once thought of the word censorship. The extremely rigorous customs examination at the border seemed to me an allusion to analysis. At a border, suitcases are opened and examined for contraband; unconscious assumptions are discovered. This is what Freud meant when he said: "I could not refuse to see the analogy

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