Subject level

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As interpretation on the subject level, or briefly as subjective interpretation, CG Jung has described a process that does not relate fantasies or dreams to real people or relationships, but entirely to "factors belonging to one's own psyche". In other words, the basic rule of the subjective method of interpretation is that the person to be analyzed, for example someone who dreams, sees himself in the dream. This individual comes face to face with himself in all of his dreamed figures, people and actions. With this, Jung wanted to supplement the method of symbol interpretation used primarily by Sigmund Freud and by psychoanalysis at the object level . The dream interpretation gave rise to this. The unconscious appeared to Jung not only as a collection of repressed instinctual claims. Rather, it represents an independent entity, which he called a “subjective functional complex”. There is one's own creative willingness to perform , which can also be referred to as finality or formative forces (causae formales), which needs to be externalized and should therefore be perceived.

Soul image

For Jung, the independent performance of the unconscious is related to the emergence and production of the image of the soul . This represents a special case among the psychic images ( fantasy images ) that are produced by the unconscious. The image of the soul is determined by the inner attitude in a similar way as the persona is determined by the outer attitude. The inner attitude is that character or personality trait that turns towards the unconscious. Such an inner attitude is due, for example, to the forces of the anima . The opposition or the interaction of the animus and anima is decisive for the maturity and individuation of the personality in the sense of overcoming and loosening so-called pairs of opposites.

reception

Eugen Drewermann confirms that the largest part of the unconscious has not simply been repressed, but at best makes itself noticeable through excessive isolation and separation from consciousness. In the symbolic language something has to be expressed that belongs to the person himself. Dream symbols must therefore not only be used as signs, i. H. semiotic standing for a concrete and known fact, to be understood, but rather to be interpreted symbolically , d. H. than not necessarily to be fully captured.

According to Jolande Jacobi , the interpretation on the subject level reveals internal, personified partial aspects or one's own psychological reality. The quality of the object image , which relates to a dreamed person, is mostly the result of a projection and is not typical of the properties and behavior of the object itself. The subjective interpretation must always be completed by an interpretation on the object level.

Stavros Mentzos keeps the interpretation at the subject level u. a. as a task of self-perception and self-objectification .

Individual evidence

  1. ^ A b c Carl Gustav Jung : Psychological types . Collected Works. Walter-Verlag, Düsseldorf 1995, paperback, special edition, volume 6, ISBN 3-530-40081-5 ; on taxation "subject level": p. 506, § 817 f .; on “Seelenbild”: p. 502 ff., § 810–813; on tax “inner attitude” p. 500, § 805; to Stw. “Phantasiebild”: p. 444 ff., § 688–699.
  2. ↑ a b Eugen Drewermann : Depth Psychology and Exegesis 1 . The truth of forms. Dream, myth, fairy tale, saga and legend. dtv non-fiction book 30376, Munich 1993, ISBN 3-423-30376-X , © Walter-Verlag, Olten 1984, ISBN 3-530-16852-1 ; P. 156 ff.
  3. ↑ a b Stavros Mentzos : Neurotic Conflict Processing. Introduction to the psychoanalytic theory of neuroses, taking into account more recent perspectives. © 1982 Kindler, Fischer-Taschenbuch, Frankfurt 1992, ISBN 3-596-42239-6 ; S. (47), 69, 72
  4. ↑ Jolande Jacobi : The psychology of CG Jung . An introduction to the complete works. With a foreword by CG Jung. Fischer Taschenbuch, Frankfurt March 1987, ISBN 3-596-26365-4 , p. 107 f. to Stw. "Union of opposing pairs and individuation".
  5. ↑ Jolande Jacobi : The psychology of CG Jung . An introduction to the complete works. With a foreword by CG Jung. Fischer Taschenbuch, Frankfurt March 1987, ISBN 3-596-26365-4 , pp. 70 f., 94 f., 103