Ten Dimensions of Dream Meaning
Art Funkhouser earned his
PhD in digital picture processing (Swiss Federal Institute of
Technology, 1979) and his diploma as a Jungian psychotherapist in
1981. Besides seeing clients in his private practice, he leads a
seminar in dreamwork at the C. G. Jung Institute near Zurich and a
dream group in Bern, Switzerland.
Abstract
Dreams are often worked on
according to their contents and these can be classified according
to various schemes. For example, Jung spoke of dreams as being
subjective and/or objective. The scheme that will be proposed and
worked on in this workshop attempts to elaborate these two
possibilities into ten dimensions: four subjective ones, one
transitional one, and five objective ones. It is hoped that those
participating will provide examples, both from their own dreams as
well as from ones they have heard about, with which to illustrate
these dimensions. It may well be that the participants will wish
to modify this scheme by giving other names to the levels being
discussed or even subtracting or adding additional ones. It should
be clear from the outset that any given dream may well have
meaning on more than one level at the same time.
