Archetypal Taxonomy You might consider fairy tales as the essence of all story forms which include myths, legends and sagas. Like the prima materia, they are to be found everywhere, cross culturally though they are not tinged by the coloring …
Author: Christopher Chayban In this post I will discuss Jung’s way of using alchemical symbolism to shed light in the dream interpretation process. I will also refer to Edinger’s elaboration on Jung’s method his unique contribution with using the alchemical …
Author: Christopher Chayban I believe that dream work in Jungian psychology could be beneficial on a cultural level because it takes the finger pointing that goes on externally in the world, through projection, and flips the script by bringing it …
Author: Christopher Chayban I will amplify a dream of mine with the dramatic schema of locale, exposition, peripeteia and lysis and the method of amplification. I am with my wife walking around a black lake and it is a sandstorm. …
Author: Christopher Chayban A big dream is one that you don’t forget. In many ways, they come to us because we have forgotten. I like how Black Elk pays heed to this by saying “You can see that it is …
Author: Christopher Chayban Disclaimer: These methods are for testing and for educational or informational purposes. Please keep this material for your use and the group’s use only. Thank you. Most of the notes are taken from the book, Energies and patterns in psychological type: …
Dream Method Guidelines: The Typology of Dreams (The Beebe Method) Read More »
Author: Christopher Chayban Disclaimer: These methods are for testing and for educational or informational purposes. Please keep this material for your use and the group’s use only. Thank you. These are some notes taken from the book, Anatomy of the psyche: Alchemical symbolism in …
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Author: Christopher Chayban Disclaimer: These methods are for testing and for educational or informational purposes. Please keep this material for your use only. Thank you. These are some notes taken from the book, Childrens dreams: Notes from the seminar given in 1936-1940 that I …
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Author: Christopher Chayban Looking at the ego, and its capacity to incarnate (assimilate) archetypal content into consciousness for healing a split psyche, is one-way to use the Jungian approach to trauma in dreams. The ego, as a functional complex is …
Author: Christopher Chayban Amplification is taking the contents of the dream and finding parallels to contents that can be found in mythology, religion or fairy tales. The definition of amplification means to make something “louder,” and the idea reminds me …
