ABSTRACT
In a 1934 lecture, Toni Wolff related two dreams from a man living in Switzerland. Wolff and the dreamer believed that the dreams reflected on Hitler’s rise. The dream ego experienced dread and revulsion in response to emergent figures of leadership, but in interpretation Wolff and the dreamer rejected this affect as wrongheaded. Based on their more conscious optimism about powerful leaders, they interpreted the dreams as supporting optimism. To learn from dreams, we should heed the dream ego’s affect. The story is made more piquant when we consider that the dreamer, as described by Wolff, may have been Jung.
