Dale M. Kushner’s Understand Your Dreams by Using Jung’s “Active
Imagination” takes on C.G. Jung’s ideas about the latent content of dreams to develop
the thesis that states, what is hidden from our minds in the day-world becomes
manifest in living color in our dreams (Para. 1). Reading Kushner’s thesis confirmed my
ideas about what the underlying meaning of our dreams really are. According to Jung,
“Our darkest dreams might contain imagery that illustrate our internal conflicts and point
to their cure as well” (Para. 8). Other previous studies have deduced that our dreams
illustrate our internal conflicts, but Jung’s theory builds on my confirmation of this idea
because of his experiment that he conducted with his unconscious …show more content…
In paragraphs 6 – 8 the transition is
prevalent, and it is understandable to the reader that Kushner is summarizing what Jung
did.
Kushner’s article is based on facts as the information that is presented in this
article deals with ideas that were previously found out by other psychologists. In
paragraph 6, Kushner introduces Sander van der Linden and describes her hypothesis
about the neuroscience of dreams. “…Based on where dreaming occurs in the brain,
speculates that dream stories “may be stripping the emotion out of a certain experience by
creating a memory of it” (Para. 6). This is the beginning of Kushner’s transition to the
other studies and she incorporates ideas from other scientists about REM dreams, but
then she mainly focuses on Jung’s ideas. The source that Kushner uses in the article is
from an essay written by Joan Chodorow that describes the process Jung with through
during the experiment. Kushner extracted more of his research from Jung’s
autobiography, Memories, Dreams, Reflections.
Focusing on Jung’s study, the idea for the experiment did not come easily to him
and Jung writes about how he underwent a lot of emotional distress because of how
Imagination” takes on C.G. Jung’s ideas about the latent content of dreams to develop
the thesis that states, what is hidden from our minds in the day-world becomes
manifest in living color in our dreams (Para. 1). Reading Kushner’s thesis confirmed my
ideas about what the underlying meaning of our dreams really are. According to Jung,
“Our darkest dreams might contain imagery that illustrate our internal conflicts and point
to their cure as well” (Para. 8). Other previous studies have deduced that our dreams
illustrate our internal conflicts, but Jung’s theory builds on my confirmation of this idea
because of his experiment that he conducted with his unconscious …show more content…
In paragraphs 6 – 8 the transition is
prevalent, and it is understandable to the reader that Kushner is summarizing what Jung
did.
Kushner’s article is based on facts as the information that is presented in this
article deals with ideas that were previously found out by other psychologists. In
paragraph 6, Kushner introduces Sander van der Linden and describes her hypothesis
about the neuroscience of dreams. “…Based on where dreaming occurs in the brain,
speculates that dream stories “may be stripping the emotion out of a certain experience by
creating a memory of it” (Para. 6). This is the beginning of Kushner’s transition to the
other studies and she incorporates ideas from other scientists about REM dreams, but
then she mainly focuses on Jung’s ideas. The source that Kushner uses in the article is
from an essay written by Joan Chodorow that describes the process Jung with through
during the experiment. Kushner extracted more of his research from Jung’s
autobiography, Memories, Dreams, Reflections.
Focusing on Jung’s study, the idea for the experiment did not come easily to him
and Jung writes about how he underwent a lot of emotional distress because of how