Weisheit der Träume. Symbolsprache verstehen nutzen.

by Klausbernd Vollmar

208 pages, Hardcover

First published January 1, 2003

Reviews

[Genndy · Rating 2 out of 5]

From the first few pages it is apparent that the author of this self help book concerning dreams is a fraud. He mixes spiritualism with cheap (very cheap) psychology, propagates his dream explaining technique through the entire book (which he even protected with copyrights, lol!), he explains Freud's and Jung's psychology by shamelessly oversimplyfing it, or even blatantly presenting it wrong in many cases. Furthermore, he likes to pretend that he knows many stuff from many "exotic"cultures, but he clearly has no clue what he is talking about (just one of many, many examples: he claims that saying "Tat tvam asi" is of Tibetan origin), and he very commonly makes very sexist assumptions towards men and male's nature, in order to score some additional points concerning his supposed readers, who, he presumes, will be mainly female.
Although this book is shamelessly amateuristic and deceiving in many ways, it is still able to teach you a few basic facts about the history of psychoanalysis and it's main terms and main symbols in dreams, which is something.