Images of the Dead in Grief Dreams: A Jungian View of Mourning

Cover
Endorsements
Half Title
Title Page
Copyright Page
Dedication
Table of contents
Preface
Chapter 1 The open door
	Notes
Chapter 2 Running with the horses
	Precognitive dreams
	A nightmare
	Jung’s approach to dreams
	Transitional objects
	A painful blow of fate
	Notes
Chapter 3 Incomprehensible things
	Jung’s premonitory dreams
	Apparitions
	Images and symbols of death
	Synchronicity
	Summary
	Notes
Chapter 4 “Let your tears fertilize my ground”
	The gift of tears
	The stages of grief
	The myth of Demeter and Persephone
	A crack in the universe
	“Metapsychic” dreams
	Three dream images
	Notes
Chapter 5 “Touch me”
	Reunion dreams
	Objective/subjective: reprise
	The imaginal level
	More dream visits with Elizabeth
	Notes
Chapter 6 The cure of souls
	Coming home
	The cure of souls
	Custodian of the tombs
	Notes
Chapter 7 The wound that heals
	The light of truth
	Reliving the trauma
	Laura’s story
	Dreams that wound and heal
	“I could have died!”
	Notes
Chapter 8 “Remember me!”
	The child in the fire
	Rites of burning: Homer
	“Remember me!” Hamlet
	The art of elegy
	Living memorials
	A time of famine
	Notes
Chapter 9 Descent to the underworld
	The night-sea journey
	The guide of souls
	The alchemy of death
	Alchemical gold
	A new guide of souls
	Notes
Chapter 10 “You can visit them in their dreams!”
	A divine dilemma
	The messengers of the gods
	“You can visit them in their dreams!”
	Notes
Chapter 11 The food of the deep
	The pomegranate seed
	The food of the deep
	Individuation after death
	Symbolic gifts
	Notes
Chapter 12 “I have a gift for you”
	Parting gifts
	A tip of the hat
	“I can see the stars”
	Packing for a trip
	A brother’s farewell
	A ritual of goodbye
	The legacy of the dead
	Notes
Epilogue
“I have a new name”
	Notes
Bibliography
Index