Summary
Ivan Nastović: The dreams of Margerit Jursenar in the light of the psychology of K.G. Jung
The monograph Margerit Jursenar's Dreams in the Light of K. G. Jung's Psychology (Prometheus, Novi Sad, 2009, 251 pages) contains twenty-two dreams of Margerit Jursenar (1903-1987), from her book Dreams and Destiny, which have now been interpreted for the first time. Based on his many decades of experience with dreams, the author observed Marguerite Jursenard's dreams in the light of Jung's analytical psychology, with the intention of peering into their archetypal wisdom and beauty, in order to at least partially reveal to us what Marguerite Jursenard's world looked like "behind closed eyes". We are talking about the dreams that were dreamed during the period of her life in which the future author of Hadrian's memoirs, as she says herself, was "completely overwhelmed by a deep and strong love" for the "man of her life", Andre Freneau, so that, as we know today, after the painful end of that love, she entered into a forty-year love relationship with Grace Frick. Dream interpretation revealed a number of significant and intimate information about Marguerite Yoursenaard, the first woman in history to become a member of the prestigious French Academy (1980). After all, "when a person lets his unconscious speak, it always says the most intimate things" (Jung), since the unconscious, whose specific expression is precisely dreams, often knows more and better than consciousness. Starting from the position that "every interpretation is only a hypothesis" in the sense of "an attempt to solve an unknown text" (Jung), the interpretation of dreams by Marguerite Jursenard in this monograph should be understood as such.
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