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Dreams Of Confusion And Certainty
I dream a lot about my mother now. I am always running toward a house that is burning, and I know that she is inside, sleeping, burning off a drunk, escaping through alcoholic fumes. I realize that she is about to die in a fire that she set herself, but I keep running toward that house, and I tell myself that I’ll save her body, and then I’ll save her mind. I’ll get her to thinking straight. I’ll get her to face life sober and squarely. And then I wake up, and I walk around this house, talking and avoiding pastries and my own fires.
— Marlon Brando
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But as soon as he began to obey the dreams, his physical symptoms, including his impotence, disappeared. He was cured by completely changing his artistic style. He did not have to change his vocation. He only had to change his style.
— Marie-Louise von Franz
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When I first met Jung, he explained a case of a woman who had a vision, and he interpreted her vision to me.
That gave me a shock, for I suddenly realized that for him inner events, like visions or dreams, were the reality.
They were a reality as well as what we call the outer reality.
~Marie-Louise von Franz, The Way of the Dream
