Dreams provide us with insight into ourselves. For the dreamer, they
bring up important issues that can balance out or complement any
one-sidedness on the consciousness level. But they can also provide
objective insights and give us orientation with regard to external
people and things. If they also have collective components, so-called
big or archetypal dreams can also be important for society as a whole.
Such dreams reveal things in a person's collective unconscious psychic
background that can be destructive, but can also bring cultural
benefits. In this book, the author and psychotherapist interprets dreams
collected between 1989 and 1992 from a wide range of people relating
directly to the question of an independent sovereign Switzerland and to
Europe in general. Such "big," archetypal dreams have something to say
not just to the dreamer personally. They also contribute to an
understanding of the collective situation in Switzerland at the time and
still have something important to say today. Their symbolic content
remains valid and of significance as long as they continue to draw
attention to something that has not yet become generally conscious. The
dreams presented here give a sense of what is probably being activated
in the background of contemporary events.
The dangerous consequences of turning a blind eye to the reality behind
the dreams and conversely, the positive effects of incorporating the
images from this unconscious dream world are summarized at the end in
relation to Switzerland, in relation to Europe and to the world in
general.
