{"corpus":"steiner","locus":"GA 67/1918-03-21/p027","lang":"en","edition":"English","edition_basis":null,"is_original":false,"is_default_edition":true,"text":"That is what emerges as the one result of spiritual investigation. I will characterise the other by telling you about a personal experience. Not long ago, after a lecture I had given in Zürich on the subject of the life of dream and cognate matters, I was told that several listeners who, on the basis of training in what is called Analytical Psychology or Psycho-Analysis, wanted to be considered particularly clever, were saying after my lecture: ‘That man is still labouring under mistaken notions which those of us who are schooled in Psycho-Analysis have long since outgrown. He believes that dream-life should be taken as something real, whereas we know that it is merely a symbolic form of the life of the psyche.’—I shall not go further into the subject of Psycho-Analysis today but simply remark that this ‘cleverness’ is based upon gross misunderstanding. For under no circumstances will a genuine spiritual investigator take what presents itself in dreams as reality in the actual form in which it is there presented. Unlike the psycho-analysts, he does not take even the course of the dream as being directly symbolic; he knows that the gist of the matter is something entirely different. Anyone who is familiar with dreams knows that ten or even more people may tell of dreams with utterly different contents, yet the underlying state of affairs is the same in all of them. One man will say that in his dream he was climbing a mountain and on reaching the top had a delightful surprise; another says that he was walking through a dark passage and came to a door which opened quite unexpectedly; a third will speak of something else. In the course they take the dreams have no outer resemblance whatever, yet they originate from an identical experience, namely tension and relaxation which are symbolised in different pictures at different times. What is of essential importance, therefore, is not the factual reality of the dream, not even its symbolism as the psycho-analysts maintain, but its *inner dramatic action*. From the sequence of the meaningless pictures we must be able to recognise this dramatic action, for that is the reality in which the soul with its spiritual core of being is living while it dreams. This is an entirely different reality from what is expressed in the pictures presented in the dream. There you have the gist of the matter. The dream therefore points to deep subconscious and unconscious grounds of the life of soul. But the pictures unfolded by the dream are only a clothing of what is actually being experienced in the course of it.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"title":"7. Manifestations of the Unconscious","site_heading":null,"date":"1918-03-21","location":null,"word_count":439,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/en/ga/67/1918-03-21/p027","alignment_confidence":"high","alignment_reason":"beads:length+anchor_constrained","two_voice_volume":false,"translation_credit":{"scope":"unit","status":"not_established","translator":null,"identified_edition":"SOL2018","book_title":"The Eternal in the Human Soul","publisher":"Steiner Online Library","publisher_inferred":true,"match_score":1.0,"source_url":"https://www.rsarchive.org/Lectures/GA067/English/SOL2018/19180321p01.html","evidence":null,"reason":"no_translator_named","note":"Neither the lecture's own page nor rsarchive's lecture list names a translator for it. No translator is established for this lecture: nothing at the level of the lecture names one. Do not attribute this English to a translator, and do not borrow a credit from another lecture of the volume. 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Als ich vor nicht langer Zeit in Zürich einen Vortrag über das Traumleben und damit verwandte Gebiete hielt, da hörte ich dann, daß verschiedene Zuhörer, die aus der gegenwärtigen wissenschaftlichen Disziplin, die man die analytische Psychologie oder Psychoanalyse nennt, besonders klug geworden sein wollten, nach meinem Vortrage sagten: «Ja, dieser Mann ist noch in Vorurteilen befangen, über die wir in der Psychoanalyse längst hinaus sind. Er glaubt, das Traumleben als etwas Wirkliches nehmen zu sollen, während wir wissen, daß das 'Traumleben nur als symbolische Ausgestaltung des Seelenlebens genommen werden darf.» Ich will mich auf Psychoanalyse hier nicht einlassen, sondern nur erwähnen, daß diese Klugheit nur auf einem grobklotzigen Mißverständnis beruht. Denn es wird dem wirklichen Geistesforscher gar nicht einfallen, dasjenige, was sich im Traume darbietet, so, wie es sich darbietet, als unmittelbar wirklich zu nehmen. Er nimmt nicht einmal den Traum in seinem Verlauf, wie ihn der Psychoanalytiker nimmt, unmittelbar als symbolische Handlung, sondern ihm kommt es auf etwas ganz anderes an. Wer bekannt ist mit dem Traumleben, der weiß: Zehn Menschen und auch mehr können inhaltlich die verschiedensten Träume erzählen, und es kann ihnen doch derselbe Tatbestand zugrunde liegen. Der eine erzählt, er sei auf einen Berg hinaufgegangen, und sei dann oben von etwas besonders Freudigem überrascht worden, der andere erzählt, er sei durch einen dunklen Gang gegangen bis zu einer Tür, die habe sich dann unverhofft geöffnet, ein Dritter erzählt etwas anderes. Die Träume sehen sich in ihrem Verlauf äußerlich nicht im geringsten ähnlich, dennoch gehen sie auf ein ganz gleichgeartetes, wirkliches Erlebnis zurück, nämlich auf dieselbe Spannung und Entspannung, die sich einmal in diesen Bildern, das andere Mal in jenen Bildern symbolisiert. Also nicht auf die Wirklichkeit des Traumes, nicht einmal, wie die Psychoanalytiker meinen, auf die Symbole kommt es an, sondern auf die innerliche Dramatik des Traumes. Man muß imstande sein, aus den bedeutungslosen Bildern in ihrer Aufeinanderfolge diese innere Dramatik zu erkennen, die Wirklichkeit, in der die Seele mit ihrem geistig-seelischen Wesenskern lebt, indem sie träumt. Diese Wirklichkeit ist eine ganz andere als das, was sich in den Traumbildern zum Ausdruck bringt. Darauf kommt es an. So weist schon der Traum tief hinunter in die unterbewußten und unbewußten Untergründe der Seele. 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