Dream analysis is a distinctive and foundational part of analytical psychology, the school of psychology founded by C. G. Jung and his successors. This volume collects Jung's most insightful contributions to the study of dreams and their meaning. The essays in this volume, written by Jung between 1909 and 1945, reveal Jung's most essential views about dreaming--especially regarding the relationship between language and dream. Through these studies, Jung grew to understand that dreams are themselves a language, a language through which the soul communicates with the body. The essays included are "The Analysis of Dreams," "On the Significance of Number Dreams," "General Aspects of Dream Psychology," "On the Nature of Dreams," "The Practical Use of Dream Analysis," and "Individual Dream Symbolism in Relation to Alchemy" (complete with illustrations). New to this edition is a foreword by Sonu Shamdasani, Philemon Professor of Jung History at University College London. Sonu Shamdasani is editor of The Red Book and Philemon Professor of Jung History at University College London. DREAMS By C. G. Jung PRINCETON UNIVERSITY PRESS Copyright © 1974 PRINCETON UNIVERSITY PRESS All right reserved. ISBN: 978-0-691-15048-2 Contents FOREWORD TO THE 2010 EDITION...................................................................................................................................................................................................viiNOTE OF ACKNOWLEDGMENT.........................................................................................................................................................................................................xiLIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS..........................................................................................................................................................................................................xiiiPART I DREAMS AND PSYCHOANALYSIS..............................................................................................................................................................................................11. The Analysis of Dreams Translated from "L'Analyse des rêves," Année psychologique (Paris), XV (1909).............................................................................................................32. On the Significance of Number Dreams Translated from "Ein Beitrag zur Kenntnis des Zahlentraumes," Zentralblatt für Psychoanalyse (Wiesbaden), I (1910/11)............................................................13PART II DREAMS AND PSYCHIC ENERGY.............................................................................................................................................................................................211. General Aspects of Dream Psychology Translated from "Allgemeine Gesichtspunkte zur Psychologie des Traumes," in Über psychische Energetik und das We sen der Träume (Zurich: Rascher, 1948)......................232. On the Nature of Dreams Translated from "Vom Wesen der Träume," in Über psychische Energetik und das Wesen der Träume (Zurich: Rascher, 1948)...............................................................67PART III THE PRACTICAL USE OF DREAM-ANALYSIS..................................................................................................................................................................................851. The Practical Use of Dream-Analysis Translated from "Die praktische Verwendbarkeit der Traumanalyse," in Wirklichkeit der Seele (Zurich: Rascher, 1934)....................................................................87PART IV INDIVIDUAL DREAM SYMBOLISM IN RELATION TO ALCHEMY Translated from Psychologie und Alchemie (Zurich, 1944; 2nd edn., revised, 1952)...................................................................................1111. Introduction................................................................................................................................................................................................................1152. The Initial Dreams..........................................................................................................................................................................................................1213. The Symbolism of the Mandala................................................................................................................................................................................................169BIBLIOGRAPHY...................................................................................................................................................................................................................299INDEX......................................................................................................................................................................................