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Research case · Transformation

Charged one franc of interest

Zurich, Switzerland · c. 1914

he had received an account from the analyst in which he was charged interest for delay in payment from the period September 3rd to 29th. The interest on the total of 315 francs was 1 franc.

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. X, On the Importance of the Unconscious
Rights
Public domain (US)
Record type
Research case
Place
Zurich, Switzerland · Swiss
Date
c. 1914
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
Writing · A stranger · Time
Feelings
Confusion · Helplessness

How traditions have read this kind of dream

Psychological

Dreams of becoming someone or something else, or of not knowing whether one is awake, have long interested writers on lucid dreaming; Stevenson credited such night work with parts of Jekyll and Hyde.

Stevenson (1888)

Mythological

Metamorphosis is one of mythology’s oldest engines — Ovid’s Metamorphoses gathers hundreds of beings changed into trees, birds and stars.

Ovid, Metamorphoses

Chinese traditions

Zhuangzi’s butterfly dream gave Chinese thought the idea of wuhua, “the transformation of things”, and the phrase “Zhuang Zhou dreams of the butterfly” remains shorthand for the blurred line between self and world.

Zhuangzi, Qiwulun

These are cultural lenses, not a diagnosis.

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