Sickness, suffering and redemption in the human and the archetypal world : a dream interpretation

Reprinted from Kirsche, Hilde--The well-tended tree," pp. 58-69.

'What is of interest here is the psychological aspect of sickness, especially sickness in dreams, and not the findings of medicine as a discipline of natural science....this approach necessarily cuts into the oneness of life and severs the intellect, with its ties to the law of causality, from the irrational. The irrational element, the unforeseen and unforeseeable that transcends the world of reason, of ego and ego-will, is left out. As a result it often breaks into our life in fateful and unexpected ways that may be reflected or anticipated in dreams.'

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