Dream Dictionary: Freud and Jung
Dream Dictionary: Freud and Jung
Active imagination: Method of assimilation of unconscious contents through their experimentation as fantasies in the wakeful state.
Amplification: Method of association in the interpretation of dreams based on comparative studies of mythology, religion, fairy tales, alchemy, astrology etc.
Anima: The archetype of feminity in man.
Animus: The archetype of masculinity in woman.
Archetype: Primary structural elements of the human psychic. The archetype equals on the psychic plane the biologist's pattern of behavior.
Archetypal image: The shape or representation taken by the archetype in oneiric life or in cultural products, mythical and religious representations etc.
Collective unconscious: the inherited part of the unconscious that especially in the psychoanalytic theory of C. G. Jung occurs in and is shared by all the members of a people or race.
Compensation: A natural process of reestablishing a central balance in the psychic.
Complex: An emotionally charged group of ideas or images.
Coniunctio: Or "conjunction", term used in alchemy to define the union of opposites. From the psychological point of view, it means the union of the conscious with the unconscious, process that is also called individuation.
Constellation: Activation of a psychic personal complex or an archetypal content.
Dream: (Freud) product of unconscious psychic primal process, the dream is in the Freud's view the fulfillment of a repressed wish (see also - repression and repressed). Dreams are made by latent thoughts and manifest content (see also -> the latent content and -> the manifest content). (Jung) Spontaneous and natural manifestation of the psychic.
Dream interpretation: method of exploration of the unconscious, dream interpretation acquired with Freud a scientific shape. It mainly consists in the gathering of associations of the dreamer related to the manifest content. (See also -> the manifest content). In the words of Freud, the dream interpretation is the reversal of the psychic process that leads to the formation of dreams, that is the latent thoughts -> dream's manifest content. The first historical dream interpreted by Freud himself is the the Irma's injection. The psychoanalytic dream interpretation method was published by Freud in his Dream Interpretation [Traumdeutung] (1900).
Drive: the word translates the German "Trieb" because it is closer to "impulse", "urge", than "instinct". A drive, in psychoanalysis, is a psychic tendency which assumes a biological source, an object of discharge, and a specific charge. Generally speaking, drives are linked with the sexual instinct.
Ego: the one of the three divisions of the psyche in psychoanalytic theory that serves as the organized conscious mediator between the person and reality especially by functioning both in the perception of and adaptation to reality.
Free association: method of investigation of the unconscious in which the client expresses thoughts exactly as they occur, even though they may seem irrelevant.
Id: the one of the three divisions of the psyche in psychoanalytic theory that is completely unconscious and is the source of psychic energy derived from instinctual needs and drives.
Individuation (process): Complex process of synthesis of the Self which consists mainly of the union of the unconscious with the conscious.
Libido: quantitatively variable force which could serve as a measure of processes and transformations occurring in the field of sexual excitation. At Jung libido designates the psychical energy without any connotation as of its quality
Latent content: Applied to the formation of dreams, refers to the thoughts related to the unconscious wishes that made the manifest content of dreams. (see also -> the manifest content)
Manifest content: Applied to the formation of dreams, points to the content of a dream that one remembers upon the waking. This is the facade of dream, the image or idea of it. (see also -> the latent content)
Mystical participation: Term taken from anthropology (Levy Bruhl) - it defines the process of identification of the human subject with external phenomena, objects and beings with the aim of taking over or determining specific effects.
Neurosis: any of various mental or emotional disorders, such as hypochondria or neurasthenia, arising from no apparent organic lesion or change and involving symptoms such as insecurity, anxiety, depression, and irrational fears, but without psychotic symptoms such as delusions or hallucinations.
Numinous: It defines the quality of archetypal images to inspire powerful feelings of panic, devotion etc.
Object level: in dream interpretation, refers to the object-relation method of interpretation. Images and ideas of dream's manifest content are treated of like real images and ideas taken from the outer, social life, of the dreamer. (see also -> dream content)
Persona: Mask of the Ego, its social expression, the way the others see us.
Personal unconscious: The Freudian unconscious, distinctive from the collective (archetypal) unconscious.
Philosophical stone: Alchemist term identified by Jung with the process of individuation and accomplishment of the Self.
Projection: the attribution of one's own attitudes, feelings, or desires to someone or something as an unconscious defense against anxiety or guilt. At Jung, the term designates the transference of spiritual features of the archetypal unconscious onto external images, objects, phenomena, etc..
Quaternity: Representation of the psychic totality through square images or squares in a circle.
Repressed: is constituted by the operation of repression, which rejects and maintains in the unconscious representations deemed incompatible with the ego moral/superego moral values.
The repressed is not directly knowable, since it pertains wholly to the unconscious sphere of the mind. (see also -> the repression)
Repression: the exclusion of distressing memories, thoughts, or feelings from the conscious mind. Often involving sexual or aggressive urges or painful childhood memories, these unwanted mental contents are pushed into the unconscious mind. (see also -> the repressed)
Self: according to Jung, the archetype of psychic totality (wholeness).
Shadow: Containing repressed parts of the human personality, the shadow is the counterpart of the Freudian unconscious. The shadow is an archetypal content.
Superego: the one of the three divisions of the psyche that is only partly conscious, represents internalization of parental interdictions and the rules of society. It is the moralizing and punishing instance in psyche.
Symbol: Unlike the Freudian definition, the symbol for Jung is the representation of something unfamiliar in the psychic, usually an instance of the Self (or the central archetype).
Synchronicity: A non-causal connection between two or more various phenomena (psychic and/or physical).
Totality: See wholeness.
Transference: the process whereby emotions are passed on or displaced from one person to another; during psychoanalysis therapy the displacement of feelings toward others (usually the parents) is onto the analyst.
Unconscious: the part of the psychic apparatus that does not ordinarily enter the individual's awareness but may be manifested by slips of the tongue, dreams, or neurotic symptoms.
Wholeness: Psychic stage in which the union of the unconscious with the conscious has been achieved.
Wise old man: Archetypal image that embodies wisdom. In the process of individuation, the Wise old man embodies the collective unconscious.
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Compilation from www.freudfile.org/psychoanalysis and www.carl-jung.net