Jung Archives | Kelly Bulkeley https://bulkeley.org/tag/jung/ Dream Research & Education Mon, 05 May 2025 22:10:11 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.8.1 https://bulkeley.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/kb-100x100.png Jung Archives | Kelly Bulkeley https://bulkeley.org/tag/jung/ 32 32 Reflections on An Introduction to the Psychology of Dreaming (1997) https://bulkeley.org/reflections-on-an-introduction-to-the-psychology-of-dreaming-1997/ https://bulkeley.org/reflections-on-an-introduction-to-the-psychology-of-dreaming-1997/#respond Mon, 05 May 2025 22:10:11 +0000 https://bulkeley.org/?p=4657 Early in my career, I had attitude about writing “secondary” texts. I didn’t want to write about what other people thought, I wanted to write about my own ideas. That’s why when the opportunity arose to write a book intended as an introductory textbook for college students, I hesitated. The offer came by way of …

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]]> https://bulkeley.org/reflections-on-an-introduction-to-the-psychology-of-dreaming-1997/feed/ 0 Reflections on The Wilderness of Dreams (1994) https://bulkeley.org/reflections-on-the-wilderness-of-dreams-1994/ https://bulkeley.org/reflections-on-the-wilderness-of-dreams-1994/#respond Thu, 30 Jan 2025 20:11:48 +0000 https://bulkeley.org/?p=4617 Writing has always been a relational process for me. Relationships with an imagined audience, with the people who have taught and influenced me, sometimes with co-authors, and always with the energies of inspiration I personify as Muses—without them, I would never care enough to put pen to paper or fingers to keyboard. With them, I’ve …

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]]> https://bulkeley.org/reflections-on-the-wilderness-of-dreams-1994/feed/ 0 Freud, Jung, and AI-generated Dream Interpretation https://bulkeley.org/freud-jung-and-ai-generated-dream-interpretation/ https://bulkeley.org/freud-jung-and-ai-generated-dream-interpretation/#respond Sat, 10 Feb 2024 00:58:15 +0000 https://bulkeley.org/?p=4548 This is a post I recently wrote about the use of artificial intelligence (AI) systems in the practice of dream interpretation.  In coordination with the team at the Elsewhere.to dream journaling app–Dan Kennedy, Gez Quinn, and Sheldon Juncker–we have been experimenting with “Freudian” and “Jungian” modes of interpretation, and the results are very encouraging. Maybe …

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]]> https://bulkeley.org/freud-jung-and-ai-generated-dream-interpretation/feed/ 0 Jung, Flying Saucers, and the Anxieties of Our Time https://bulkeley.org/jung-flying-saucers-and-the-anxieties-of-our-time/ https://bulkeley.org/jung-flying-saucers-and-the-anxieties-of-our-time/#respond Tue, 22 Dec 2020 00:13:54 +0000 https://bulkeley.org/?p=4234 How archetypal dreams, visions, and art respond to a collective crisis. One of the last books he ever wrote, C.G. Jung’s Flying Saucers: A Modern Myth of Things Seen in the Skies (1957) shows how psychology can shed new light on social anxieties and cultural conflicts. This slender text offers Jung’s perspective on the controversial …

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]]> https://bulkeley.org/jung-flying-saucers-and-the-anxieties-of-our-time/feed/ 0 New Dream Research in 2019 https://bulkeley.org/new-dream-research-in-2019/ https://bulkeley.org/new-dream-research-in-2019/#respond Thu, 13 Dec 2018 23:51:16 +0000 http://bulkeley.org/?p=3751 Dreaming, play, theater, science, religion, social and political crisis. Jung, Freud, Shakespeare, a troupe of immigrant artists, Alice in Wonderland, Lucrecia de Leon, the US President. These are the topics and the people I will be discussing most frequently in a series of presentations lining up for 2019.  Each presentation will speak directly to the interests of a …

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]]> https://bulkeley.org/new-dream-research-in-2019/feed/ 0 The Origins of Religion in Dreaming https://bulkeley.org/the-origins-of-religion-in-dreaming/ https://bulkeley.org/the-origins-of-religion-in-dreaming/#respond Wed, 21 Jan 2015 23:18:13 +0000 http://bulkeley.org/?p=2958 One of the oldest theories about the origins of religion argues that religious beliefs and practices are derived from the experience of dreaming.  This theory is most often associated with the 19th century British anthropologist E.B. Tylor, as expressed in this passage from the 1873 work Primitive Culture: “The evidence of visions corresponds with the …

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]]> https://bulkeley.org/the-origins-of-religion-in-dreaming/feed/ 0 New Dissertations in the Study of Dreams https://bulkeley.org/dissertations-study-dreams/ https://bulkeley.org/dissertations-study-dreams/#respond Mon, 03 Jun 2013 17:48:32 +0000 http://bulkeley.org/?p=2725 This year I’ve had the honor of serving as an advisor for three doctoral dissertations in the study of dreams.  Dianne Jackie Frost at Pacifica Graduate Institute, Cynthia S. Sauln at Sofia University, and Mary Walsh at San Francisco Theological Seminary have done highly innovative work in exploring some of the most important and potentially …

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]]> https://bulkeley.org/dissertations-study-dreams/feed/ 0 The Wondering Brain: Dreams, Religion, and Cognitive Neuroscience https://bulkeley.org/wondering-brain-dreams-religion/ https://bulkeley.org/wondering-brain-dreams-religion/#respond Wed, 01 May 2013 16:56:52 +0000 http://bulkeley.org/?p=2805 Here is a pdf of an chapter I wrote for a book published in 2011, Changing Minds: Religion and Cognition Through the Ages (edited by I. Czachesz and T. Biro) (Peeters), pp. 75-85: Changing Minds book chapter  

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]]> https://bulkeley.org/wondering-brain-dreams-religion/feed/ 0 Children’s Dreams Interview with Anne Hill https://bulkeley.org/childrens-dreams-interview-anne/ https://bulkeley.org/childrens-dreams-interview-anne/#respond Sun, 03 Feb 2013 00:26:37 +0000 http://bulkeley.org/?p=2557 A couple of weeks ago Anne Hill, host of Dream Talk Radio, invited me to talk about the book I recently co-authored with my mother, Children’s Dreams: Understanding the Most Memorable Dreams and Nightmares of Childhood (Rowman & Littlefield, 2012).  Here’s a Youtube link to our discussion, which I thought was really fun.  Below I’ve posted …

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]]> https://bulkeley.org/childrens-dreams-interview-anne/feed/ 0 Tracking Robert Bosnak’s Dreams https://bulkeley.org/tracking-robert-bosnaks-dreams/ https://bulkeley.org/tracking-robert-bosnaks-dreams/#respond Sun, 20 Jan 2013 00:41:57 +0000 http://bulkeley.org/?p=2537 The Sleep and Dream Database has just added a new series of dreams to its collection, thanks to the generosity of Robert Bosnak.  In his 1996 book Tracks in the Wilderness of Dreaming he included an appendix with a series of 51 dreams recorded during a seven-week period of travel and personal transition.  With his …

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