The Meaning and Significance of Dreams

by Carl Alfred Meier

Italian (translation)Original German

Genres: Psychology

219 pages, Hardcover

First published January 1, 1983

About the author

Carl Alfred Meier was a Swiss psychiatrist, Jungian psychologist, scholar, and first president of the C. G. Jung Institute in Zürich.

Reviews

[Sam]

I kept this book by my bed for the past half a year and read a few pages before I went to sleep now and then. I admire the psychology of Jung, but some of the approaches to dreams in Meier's book seem from a different era that may as well be a different epoch.

The emphasis on classic mythology, while fascinating, gave many of the dream interpretation approaches an obscure feel. Meier held his (and Jung's) approach together admirably and inspired me to resume a dreamwork recording practice in the mornings. This book has put dreams and their meaning over the centuries in a more historical context for me, and does also explain some more recent approaches (mostly from the first half of the 20th century).

There are some intriguing diagrams and some insightful psychological analyses of how we might logically understand dreaming.

Not a great book, and something may be lost in the translation from German, but different than popular or pseudo-scientific books about dreams which dumb things down too often.

[Will]

If only I could imagine like she could travel the world and the universe within the mind. If it wasn’t for him I think I would have remained godless. He inspired faith back into the scientific community and myself