ABSTRACT
Dreams are ‘a spontaneous self-portrayal, in symbolic form, of the actual situation in the unconscious’ (CW 8: para. 505). Liminal, between phenomena occurring on the threshold of consciousness (like ‘Freudian slips’, memory lapses and synchronistic events) dreams talk in symbols: meaning-rich fluent forms. Like a waterfall or a candle’s flame, the parts change but the whole remains forever itself. From Jung’s concept, ‘Self is multiplicity’, symbols, as communications from Self, have multiplicities of meaning. They always contain an unknowable X, and hint at a future perspective.
