/lit/ - Literature

>>16971437
The interesting thing about the formula of traditional prayer is it's phrased as a command or a spell. Yes you're taught that you should recite it in the spirit of a humble request, but The Lord's Prayer doesn't contain a single solicitation, only orders.

>>16971483
Jung says most dream symbols are universal, but the interpretation is personal. Like how an alphabet or ideograms can be arranged to mean anything. Symbols are not just images, but also themes. Like running from a thing you can't see, or fighting with useless weapons. Jung is very instructive in this regard, but in the end it's always about using your intuition.

Frued is good in that he identifies the source of dream content: most of the time it's going to be stuff that you experienced the previous day or WARNING: HYLICS, DO NOT READwill experience tomorrow. Although that last bit comes from Dunne, not Freud. That it is a wish fulfillment is only true sometimes. Usually it's an opinion.

Frued's mistake in the Leonardo paper was trying to interpret someone else's dream for them. Psychoanalyst's should never try to do that unless it's extremely obvious. Instead they should help their patient's learn how to interpret their own dreams.

Freud made other mistakes like the Oedipus complex, but that's a nasty can of worms that doesn't belong here.