A Method for working with your dreams

MARIA LOUISE VON FRANZ: A WAY TO WORK WITH DREAMS

1. INTRO:

a. Note the setting of the dream and the naming of the problem

b. 1st sentence gives setting and introduces major characters

c. What are the associations you have to each significant element in the dream

d. Then insert associations which ‘click’ into the text

ex.: I am in my childhood home with my friend Bob

Associations: I am psychologically still in some of my boyhood situation and I am

with a part of myself who is boring and mischievous.

2. Peripeteia: Ups and downs of the story: how it applies to the dreamer’s life

How does the dreamer have one leg in the childhood home?

Where does he still react like a boy? Name the problem.

3. Lysis: solution or catastrophe of the dream. Watch the last sentence.