Articles of category "amplification"

"The dream is a little hidden door in the innermost and most secret recesses of the psyche, opening into that cosmic night which was psyche long before there was any ego-consciousness, and which will remain psyche no matter how far our ego-consciousness may extend...All consciousness separates; but in dreams we put on the likeness of that more universal, truer, more eternal man dwelling in the darkness of primordial night. There he is still the whole, and the whole is in him, indistinguishable from nature and bare of all ego hood. Out of these all-united depths arises the dream, be it never so childish, grotesque and immoral." This quote by Carl Gustav Jung (pronounced "young") is the beginning of his explanation of his theory of dream amplification. Learn more here.

The amplification method is a method divined by Karl Jung that essentially means free form association. It is commonly know today as word association. It is a way of describing something without using its name, using imagery or descriptive terms, and it often shows how the mind works by the associations that it uses.