Dream Language Quotes

“Accordingly, identification, or the formation of composite figures, serves different purposes: first, to represent a feature both persons have in common; secondly, to represent a displaced common feature; but thirdly, to find expression for a common feature that is merely wished for. Since wishing it to be the case that two people have something in common is often the same as exchanging them, this relation too is expressed in the dream by identification. In the dream of Irma's injection, I wish to exchange this patient for another, that is, I wish that the other were my patient, as Irma is; the dream takes account of the wish in showing me a figure who is called Irma, but who is examined in a posture in which I have only had occasion to see the other.”
― Sigmund Freud, The Interpretation of Dreams

“From eyes shut to eyes opened, mouth closed to mouth open, every night we go through this journey, and yet what happens between the going under and coming up is so little valued.... Memory makes initiation, and individuation (the modern parallel) possible. It is essential for psychic growth to throw oneself into the flow of unconscious life, not to forget, not to diminish; not to demean or degrade as "mere fantasy" one's adventures in the other world... This urge to express what was seen and heard beneath the surface of ordinary reality requires a "language of the soul.”
― Nor Hall, The Moon and the Virgin: Reflections on the Archetypal Feminine