According to Jung’s metaphysics, the physical world outside, just like intense nightly dreams, is also a psychic expression organized according to archetypal patterns. We inhabit an experiential universe embodying archetypal semantics. As such, waking life is in many ways akin to a dream and thus symbolic, non-literal, amenable to interpretation. Like our nightly dreams, the physical world isn’t just what it seems to be; instead, it is also an expression of underlying mental dynamisms, therefore carrying a message. Life in the world can be interpreted just as our nightly dreams can. Upon lying
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