Dream Interpretation Ancient and Modern

John Peck is a Jungian analyst in private practice. He is a cotranslator of Jung's Red Book and the author of ten books of poetry, including Contradance. Lorenz Jung, now deceased, was a grandson of C. G. Jung and a Jungian analyst in private practice. Maria Meyer-Grass is a Jungian analyst in private practice. Ernst Falzeder is lecturer at the University of Innsbruck and senior editor at the Philemon Foundation. He is the editor of The Complete Correspondence of Sigmund Freud and Karl Abraham, 1907-1925.

"Full of symbols, analogies, and speculation, this entertaining, scholarly book will be accessible to general readers interested in psychology, anthropology, and the occult."--Library Journal "Dream Interpretation Ancient and Modern can be very useful for readers who have little or no understanding that dreams were interesting to well-educated scholars for thousands of years before Freud and Jung began their investigations... [T]he book is worth examination by anyone interested in the ideas of Jung or dream interpretation. Jung's comments in this work, as usual, are interesting, erudite, and extremely helpful."--Ronald Teague, PsycCRITIQUES "[An] intriguing volume... [T]his book is well researched and will be a welcome addition to Jung collections."--Choice

• Note to the English Edition vii Acknowledgments ix Preface and Introduction by the Original Editors, Lorenz Jung and Maria Meyer-Grass xi Calendar Contents for the Full Seminar, Winter Term, 1936/37-Winter Term, 1940/41 (coordinated with Children's Dreams Seminar) xvii Introduction by the editor, John Peck xxi A. Older Literature on Dream Interpretation (Commencing Winter Term 1936/37) Chapter 1. Macrobius: Commentarius ex Cicerone in Somnium Scipionis, Paper by W. Bachtold 3 Chapter 2. Artemidorus: Five Books on the Art of Dream Interpretation, Paper by Grete Adler 14 Chapter 3. Synesius of Cyrene: Treatise on Dream Visions, Paper by Rivkah Scharf 22 Chapter 4. Caspar Peucer, De Somniis, Paper by Marie-Louise von Franz 32 B. The Enlightenment and Romanticism Chapter 5. M. l'Abbe Richard, Theorie des songes, Paper by Dr. Alice Leuzinger 45 Chapter 6. Franz Splittgerber, Schlaf und Tod, Paper by Kristin Oppenheim 49 C. The Modern Period Chapter 7. Yves Delage, Le Reve, Paper by Hans Baumann 57 Chapter 8. Discussion of Paul W. Radestock, Schlaf und Traum, Paper by Dr. Alice Kitzinger 69 Chapter 9. Discussion of Philipp Lersch, Der Traum in der deutschen Romantik, Paper by Dr. Charlotte Spitz 74 Chapter 10. Discussion of Jackson Steward Lincoln, The Dream in Primitive Cultures, Paper by Dr. Kenower Bash 82 Chapter 11. Discussion of Eugene Marais, The Soul of the White Ant, Paper by Carol Baumann 94 D. Visions and Dreams Chapter 12. Discussion of the Visions of St. Perpetua, Paper by Marie-Louise von Franz 107 Chapter 13. Discussion of the Dreams of the Renaissance Scholar Girolamo Cardano, Paper by Dr. E. Levy 122 Chapter 14. Discussion of Three Dreams of Dr. John Hubbard, alias Peter Blobbs (The Censer, the Swinging Ax, and the Man at the End of the Corridor), Paper by Carol Baumann 216 Bibliography 241 Index 249