ABSTRACT
This chapter examines five of Jung’s dreams of his dead parents. The first dream of his father occurred twice, soon after the elder Jung’s death. Analysis of it includes comments by Freud, to whom Jung told the dream later, and Jungian analyst Greg Mogenson, who suggests an imaginal approach to the dream. In the second dream, which occurred twenty-six years later, Jung’s dream father wants to consult him on marital psychology. The next two dreams occurred when Jung was in his sixties. In the first, Jung’s parents are working on matters concerning theology and marriage. In the second, Jung’s father has become a learned biblical scholar and leads him to the chamber of “the highest presence.” Jung interpreted these dreams objectively, as actual dream encounters with his dead parents, who were guiding him towards his future work in Aion (1951) and Mysterium Coniunctionis (1955, 1956). In my discussion I suggest that subjective and imaginal interpretations of the dreams might also prove fruitful.
