[kj] OT: Jungian dream analysis

[folk devil]

Maybe the drunk was you? ;)



>From: "nicholas fitzpatrick" <gasw30 at hotmail.com>

>Reply-To: "A list about all things Killing Joke (the 

>band!)"<gathering at misera.net>

>To: gathering at misera.net

>Subject: [kj] OT: Jungian dream analysis

>Date: Wed, 11 Jul 2007 13:08:22 +0000

>

>I had a dream the other night about getting ripped off by a guy in a bar. 

>My question is: if it’s my dream and this guy is my creation, why didn’t I 

>see it coming?

>

>In the dream I was having a drink with a friend and this other guy came 

>over a bit drunk and got talking to us. He was okay and asked me to lend 

>him £5. I did do (which is something I wouldn’t do in real life). Anyway, a 

>little later he sponged a drink off my friend. I thought, why does he need 

>to sponge a drink when I’ve already lent him a fiver?

>

>As I was about to put the question to him, he hopped off laughing into 

>dreamland and I woke up feeling thoroughly furious at my gullibility, and 

>confused about why I had no power in a situation created entirely in my own 

>head.

>

>Searching for an answer, no matter how New Age, I look to Carl Gustav Jung 

>– whose theories I fail to understand, but it doesn’t matter. I believe 

>this character was some form of archetype with his own will that is not 

>subject to mine. He was a sort of mischieveous Irish leprechaun archetype. 

>W at nker.

>

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