Dream Galaxy

Research case · People & kin

A fire in a hotel in a strange city

Zurich, Switzerland · c. 1913

She was in a hotel in a strange city. Suddenly a fire broke out; and her husband and her father, who were with her, helped her in the work of saving others.

Original text — Collected Papers on Analytical Psychology (ed. Constance E. Long), C. G. Jung

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Source
Collected Papers on Analytical Psychology (ed. Constance E. Long) — C. G. Jung, 1916 (English ed.). Ch. IX, On Psychoanalysis
Rights
Public domain (US)
Record type
Research case
Place
Zurich, Switzerland · Swiss
Date
c. 1913
Uncertainty
Moderate — Case reported by C. G. Jung (Collected Papers on Analytical Psychology, 1916 English ed.). Public domain in the US; in life+70 countries Jung’s works remain protected until the end of 2031.
Imagery
Fire · City · House · Partner · Father · Crowd
Feelings
Fear · Tenderness

How traditions have read this kind of dream

Psychological

Family members, friends and strangers populate most dreams. Freud read many such dreams as wishes in disguise; contemporary researchers emphasise continuity with waking relationships and concerns.

Freud, Dream Psychology (1920)

Mythological

Dreams in epic and scripture are often addressed to someone — a wife waiting for a husband, a son receiving a vision for his family — and are told aloud to be understood.

Odyssey XIX; Genesis 37

Chinese traditions

Confucius lamented that he no longer dreamed of the Duke of Zhou; in Chinese letters, dreaming of someone is a measure of how much they are on one’s mind.

Analects 7.5

These are cultural lenses, not a diagnosis.

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