ABSTRACT
Michael Monhart’s first exposure to Jung leads him to value understanding his dreams as a means of growing his sense of self. A more classically Freudian orientation might have a somewhat different focus, and would have led Monhart to wonder about what shameful sexual and aggressive, narcissistic impulses his dreams were hiding. Freud fought to release himself from the grip of the unconscious, to break the code, and to thereby find the courage, through rationality and the overcoming of fear of the truth, to gain the confidence he needed to become the triumphant head of his movement. Turning to Monhart’s clinical material, which displays his rich, complex thinking: Monhart presents two initial dreams of his analysand. There’s a minor amount of language there between Jung and the contemporary relational psychoanalytic concept of the multiplicity of the self and the universality of developmental trauma and dissociation.
