DREAMS ARE FACTS

Dreams are facts.
In analytic psychology, dreams are the elements of what is going on in a person’s unconscious.

“Soon I realized that it was right to take the dreams in this way as the basis of interpretation, for that is how dreams are intended.  They are the facts from which we must proceed.” p171.

These are the words of Carl Jung in his Memories, Dreams, Reflections.

As I read this book, a subtle undercurrent is Jung’s wrestling with scientific inquiry and how that might apply to his formulation of his analytic psychology.  As we saw a few pages ago (AVERAGE SCIENCE), Jung rejects the scientific method as too general for his purposes.

As he searches for a paradigm to replace the scientific method, he comes to the realization that dreams are facts.  As stated in the quote, dreams must be taken as facts.

No one had ever said this before.  This new fact archetype, the dream, allowed a fresh human understanding.

Jung’s dreams as facts recalls visual facts that we have been hinting at, in a round about way, in these pages.  Although at times I am not exactly clear what, exactly, visual facts mean.  Jung’s realizations gives me encouragement to work to give greater definition to visual facts.

For more on visual facts, see

VISUAL FACTS
FACTUAL DESIGN
SOCIETAL KNOWLEDGE
DRAWINGS TO SAVE THE WORLD

1.  Jung, Carl.  Memories, Dreams, Reflections.  Pantheon Books; New York.  1961.