ABSTRACT
This chapter explores the importance of dreams in analytical psychology with a particular emphasis on Jungian art therapy. An overview of how the study of dreams became important in the field of psychoanalysis, how Jung’s views on dream interpretation varied from Freud’s, and how Jung developed his process of association and amplification to broaden the idea of dream interpretation to an expansive rather than reductive view is considered. The chapter includes a number of clinical examples that link the dreams of individuals to: 1) the art work they made in response to these dreams, and 2) the situations in their lives upon which the dream was commenting. Finally, a brief analytic commentary on the images from a Jungian art therapy perspective is considered. Illustrating key Jungian concepts, these clinical vignettes provide a basic introduction to working with dreams using a Jungian art therapy model.
