Lecture 19 The flowers in the dreams of Freud

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Lecture 19The flowers in the dreams of Freud
Red Canna, Georgia OKeefe, 1923
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S. Freud May 6, 1856Sep 23, 1939

• Founder of psychoanalysis
• The unconscious mind often
• represses wishes (generally
• of a sexual and aggressive
• nature).
• Unconscious conflicts over
• repressed wishes may
• express themselves in dreams.
• These unconscious conflicts
• are the source of neuroses.

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Representation in Dreams by Symbols
This dream comes from a non-neurotic girl of a
rather prudish and reserved type I arrange the
centre of a table with flowers for a birthday. On
being questioned she states that in the dream she
seemed to be at home (she has no home at the
time) and experienced a feeling of happiness.
The interpretation of the dream follows
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The popular symbolism enables me to translate
the dream for myself. It is the expression of her
wish to be married the table, with the flowers
in the centre, is symbolic of herself and her
genitals. She represents her future fulfilled,
inasmuch as she is already occupied with the
thoughts of the birth of a child so the wedding
has taken place long ago.
The World of Dreams, London (1911), p. 168.
See the rest of interpretation below
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So, I dream a lot flowers, does that mean I am a
pervert?
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An improved understandingCarl Jung (July 26,
1875 June 6, 1961)

• Understanding the psyche through exploring the
  worlds of dreams, art, mythology, world religion
  and philosophy.
• Pioneered some of the major psychological
  concepts
• - The collective unconscious
• - The archetype

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One thing is for sure related to the archetype
animawe associate women with flowers

• Women flowers
• Why?

O'Keeffe-Music-Pink Blue II
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Mother Earth FloraCeresGaia, Terra Mater
Pachamama..What do they all have in
common?
Hundreds of goddesses in the mythologies of all
civilizations!
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Virginia Lee, Inner Seasons
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Mother Earth by Jenness Cortez Perlmutter 
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Mother Earth by Germaine Arnaktauyok