dream interpretation were ways of converting our little personal miseries into big robust myths

Justin Evans

Mots clés paranormal

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Festina lente. You know what that means?"
Hurry slowly."
Bene." He smiled.
-A Good

Justin Evans

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[...] and I said to myself: Aha. George used to have a way of coping."
"When?" I said, confused. "You mean, when I was a kid?"
"Have you ever heard," you said, "of the idea of the shadow self?"
Sure, I told you. It was one of the Jungian archetypes—one of the symbols of the collective unconscious. That was pretty much all I remembered from college.
"Not bad. Do you know what function it plays, in analysis?" you asked. I shook my head. You continued. "The shadow is a frequent figure in dreams. It can appear as a kind of doppelgänger; an evil twin. It embodies our repressed desires. The dark stuff. The shameful stuff. The you-want-to-fuck-your-mother stuff." (48)

Justin Evans

Mots clés psychology-jungian-dreams

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