ABSTRACT
In the 1960s, Dr Jean Miller in New York explored the dreams of patients with depression. Sigmund Freud interpreted dreams as repressed desires, mostly to do with sexuality, and Carl Jung thought they had more to do with the dreamer's unconscious needs in a more general way, and saw them as the conduit to the collective unconscious. The world of dream is smaller than the waking world, stripped down to the skeleton of the basic emotional reality of the dreamer's life. As a therapist, he knew that when the dream-world is black and frightening, and the dreamer's behaviour reflects this, it is because the dreamer is closed up against the possibilities of life, because he is afraid of the possibilities of love. Something has made him scared of the open sunny landscapes of love and freedom as represented in dreams, like that of the golden urn.
