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What Animals in Our Dreams Can Tell Us
January 11, 1991 @ 7:30 pm - 9:30 pm PST
By looking at animals as they appear in our dreams (through information from analytical psychology, myth and religion) we are provided with a window through which we can glimpse something deep within the instinctive-body-matter aspect of an individual’s psyche. We also glimpse the aspects of nature by which we know the inter-connectedness of all things. The animal can connect us to the instinctive level, but it is a mistake to simply interpret all animals as instincts without respect for the amazing, mysterious specificity within the psyche of choosing precisely the image required.
Inseeing is a term used by Ranier Marie Rilke to describe that exact moment in creation when God knew that each creature was perfect just as it was. By inseeing into the images of the animals in our dreams, perhaps we can better understand what they can tell us.
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ELEANORA M. WOLOY, M.D., is a psychiatrist, Jungian Analyst and Associate Professor of psychiatry at the Eastern Virginia Medical School. She is a graduate of the Inter-Regional Society of Jungian Analysts and a training analyst. She received her medical and psychiatric training, including child psychiatry, at the University of Michigan and for the past 20 years she has conducted a private practice in Virginia Beach, Virginia. She has written a book entitled Psyche and Dog, and was a contributing writer to the book, Closeness in Personal and Professional Relationships.