In the 1930s C. G. Jung embarked upon a bold investigation into
childhood dreams as remembered by adults to better understand their
significance to the lives of the dreamers. Jung presented his findings
in a four-year seminar series at the Swiss Federal Institute of
Technology in Zurich. Children's Dreams marks their first publication
in English, and fills a critical gap in Jung's collected works.
Here we witness Jung the clinician more vividly than ever before--and he
is witty, impatient, sometimes authoritarian, always wise and
intellectually daring, but also a teacher who, though brilliant, could
be vulnerable, uncertain, and humbled by life's great mysteries. These
seminars represent the most penetrating account of Jung's insights into
children's dreams and the psychology of childhood. At the same time they
offer the best example of group supervision by Jung, presenting his most
detailed and thorough exposition of Jungian dream analysis and providing
a picture of how he taught others to interpret dreams. Presented here in
an inspired English translation commissioned by the Philemon Foundation,
these seminars reveal Jung as an impassioned educator in dialogue with
his students and developing the practice of analytical psychology.
An invaluable document of perhaps the most important psychologist of the
twentieth century at work, this splendid volume is the fullest
representation of Jung's views on the interpretation of children's
dreams, and signals a new wave in the publication of Jung's collected
works as well as a renaissance in contemporary Jung studies.
