He put her into that pregnant situation, into that pinned-down situation, and a modern woman says, “Now I’m always confined to this flat, and I cannot fulfill my personality, and I cannot do what I want to do, and it’s your fault. Generally it’s projected and the poor husband has to pay for that. But the dream ends well because she realizes she can manage to escape. Pregnancy is a time of introversion for a woman and therefore, if a woman has led a very active life up to her pregnancy, she generally has a conflict about it which is mirrored in the dream. The cowboys want to make the farm richer and make more profit, but this is not a time to work for outer profit or outer goals. The cowboys would represent within her not something evil but rather her own temperamental impulse toward action, toward living an active life, which is not in accordance with her pregnant state. In the second dream, the woman dreams of all those cowboys who are attacking and shooting down pregnant women and even burning them on the bonfire. And the wild, freedom-loving side of a woman’s personality revolts. The attacks become even worse during pregnancy because as long as there is no child, a woman can still toy with the idea of divorce, but when a child is on the way, she is really pinned down for the next ten or fifteen years. That is why these male figures, the animi, often come up in her dreams and attack her. But, as soon as she marries the man she loves, she is pinned down to him for better or for worse, and the freedom-loving person in the woman resents it. She can dream about marrying a TV reporter and traveling all over the world, or marrying a rich man and doing whatever she likes, or marrying a farmer and having her own farm-her life is full of possibilities. Before a woman is married, she can dream about what she could do or would do. That is because marriage is also being pinned down to a specific destiny and situation, and something in the woman resents it. Jung once said, “Women are absolutely lovely and charming and chase the men till they reach the point of being married, and then they transform into devils and harass the man from morning till night. However, their own impulse toward action and outer activity comes into conflict with that. Pregnant women should live a quiet life, following their natural rhythms. The state of pregnancy, especially for a modern, active woman, is very difficult, because, for the sake of pregnancy and for the coming child, the woman should fall into a state of musing, brooding, quietness. These are typical dreams of pregnant women. von Franz, why do pregnant women often have disturbing dreams? This instinctive maternal energy is an awesome power in a woman.ĭr. To nourish and protect, to keep warm and hold fast are the functions of the maternal feminine in relation to a child. That which is born from her belongs to her and remains subject to her. By giving birth, the woman herself is transformed into a mother and, unlike the male, she becomes the mother out of which she came. Her body is an unconscious vehicle by which nature reproduces. In the Great Mother, Erich Neumann points out that in childbearing, a woman is the organ and instrument of transformation of both herself and her child. The positive animus is an innermost instinctive awareness of the inner truth, a basic inner truthfulness which guides the spiritual woman in her individuation, toward becoming her own self -Marie-Louise von Franz The Way of the Dream by Marie-Louise von Franz Carl Jung Depth Psychology Facebook Group
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