Children's dreams : notes from the seminar given in 1936-1940

523 Pages·2008·1.883 MB·English, German

by  Jung, Carl Gustav, Jung, Lorenz, Meyer-Grass, Maria, Woolfson, Tony, Falzeder, Ernst, Jung, Carl Gustav

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Children’s
Dreams
A COMPLETE LIST OF THE COLLECTED WORKS OF C. G. JUNG
APPEARS AT THE BACK OF THIS VOLUME
Children’s
Dreams
Notes from the Seminar
Given in 1936–1940
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by C. G. Jung
Edited by Lorenz Jung and Maria Meyer-Grass
Translated by Ernst Falzeder with the collaboration of Tony Woolfson
Published with the support of the Philemon Foundation
This book is part of the Philemon Series of the Philemon Foundation
PRINCETON UNIVERSITY PRESS
PRINCETON AND OXFORD
First published in Switzerland under the title Seminare:
Kinderträume© Walter-Verlag 1987
English translation © 2008 by Princeton University Press
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Jung, C. G. (Carl Gustav), 1875–1961.
[Kinderträume. English]
Children’s dreams: notes from the seminar given in 1936–1940/
by C. G. Jung; edited by Lorenz Jung and Maria Meyer-Grass;
translated by Ernst Falzeder with the collaboration of Tony Woolfson.
p. cm.
Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
ISBN 978-0-691-13323-2 (hardcover: alk. paper)
1. Children’s dreams—Congresses. 2. Children’s dreams—Case
studies—Congresses. 3. Dreams—Congresses. 4. Archetype
(Psychology)—Congresses. 5. Psychoanalysis—Congresses.
6. Jung, C. G. (Carl Gustav), 1875–1961—Congresses.
I. Meyer-Grass, Maria. II. Title.
BF1099.C55J8613 2008
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Contents
NOTE TO THE ENGLISH EDITION vii
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS ix
PREFACE xi
INTRODUCTION BY THE EDITORS xiii
On the Method of Dream Interpretation 1
1
Seminar on Children’s Dreams (Winter Term, 1936/37) 32
2
Psychological Interpretation of Children’s Dreams
3 (Winter Term, 1938/39) 104
Psychological Interpretation of Children’s Dreams
4 (Winter Term, 1939/40) 236
Seminar on Children’s Dreams (Winter Term, 1940/41) 379
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APPENDIX: DREAM SERIES OF A BOY 469
BIBLIOGRAPHY 471
INDEX 479
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Note to the English Edition
Between 1936 and 1940, C. G. Jung presented a seminar on chil-
dren’s dreams and old works on dream interpretation at the Eid-
genössische Technische Hochschule (Swiss Federal Institute of
Technology) in Zurich. In 1987, these were published in German by
Walter Verlag, edited by Lorenz Jung and Maria Meyer-Grass in a
680-page volume. For the English edition, it was decided to publish
the work in two volumes, placing the seminars on children’s dreams
in one volume and the seminars on old works on dream interpreta-
tion in a second volume, to preserve thematic continuity. Footnotes
originally made by the participants of the seminars have been left
standing; those by the editors of the German edition are indicated
by “(ed.).” Additional editorial footnotes by the translator, Ernst
Falzeder, have been added, and are indicated by “(trans.).” The trans-
lation and additional editorial work have been funded by the Phi-
lemon Foundation, a nonprofit organization dedicated to raising
funds for the publication of C. G. Jung’s unpublished works (www
.philemonfoundation.org). The Board of the Philemon Foundation
would like to thank its donors for their generous support, which has
made this volume possible.
Sonu Shamdasani
General Editor, Philemon Series
Reader in Jung History,
Wellcome Trust Centre for the History of
Medicine at University College, London
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Acknowledgments
My thanks go to Steven Martin, Sonu Shamdasani, and Tony Woolf-
son for their invaluable support and help, as well as to the commu-
nity of the translators forum at http://dict.leo.org/forum/. Ulrich
Hoerni of the C. G. Jung Erbengemeinschaft went through parts of
the draft and made helpful suggestions. Thanks to Madeleine B.
Adams and Sara Lerner of Princeton University Press for the excel-
lent collaboration.
Ernst Falzeder
Translator