In these a definite structure can be perceived, which Jung divided into four stages: (1) the exposition, which sets the place and often the time of the action, as well as the dramatis personae involved; (2) the development of the plot, in which the situation becomes complicated and ‘a definite tension develops because one does not know what will happen’; (3) the culmination or peripeteia, when ‘something decisive happens or something changes completely’; and (4) the lysis, the conclusion, the solution, or result of the dream-work
