ABSTRACT

Kunzendorf’s (2007b) more recent effort, the latent level of meaning in symbolic dreams is to be found

not in an unconscious wish nor in an inherited instinct, but in the emotion that is consciously underlying

symbolic dreams and is visually pictured by those dreams. Parts of our artistic experiment are inspired

by Jung’s approach to dream symbolism, and parts of our psychological experiment are inspired by

Kunzendorf’s approach. The second of our two primary goals, however, is to inspire and to enable other

researchers to uncover statistical associations between our art students’ personality traits and visible

characteristics of their digitized dreams, no matter what the researchers’ theoretical inclinations may be.

Because all the contents of this monograph ultimately come back to our interdisciplinary