If you choose this project, please email me vktonay@ucsc.edu and I will send you the link to the series. Please do not share the series with anyone. To prepare, glance through The Creative Dreamer. You'll find information in there on what creative people tend to be like, as well as common themes in creative people's dreams, which will give you added depth of understanding of her dreams; chapters from it are referred to below. Here are the paper instructions:

Please respond to the following questions in a typed, double spaced paper. Make sure to include the number of each question you're responding to before you respond to it. There's no page limit; just use as much space as you need to answer the questions, although I can't imagine you writing more than a page or two for each. It's due the last day of class at 1:00 pm. Have fun!

1) As discussed in chapter 2 of The Creative Dreamer, feelings in dreams are different from feelings in waking life? Determining what emotions the dreamer is expressing in dreams gives you information about the feelings she is not aware of having in waking life (and needs to express). Tally up the emotions expressed by the dreamer in her dreams, as discussed in chapter 2. What main emotion(s) is she expressing in her dreams, and therefore unaware of in waking life? What main emotion(s) is she expressing very little of in her dreams, and therefore aware of in waking life? (You can answer this question in a few words.)

2) Psychoanalysis:

a) What main wishes/fears is this dreamer expressing in her dreams?

b) Give one example of condensation, and one example of displacement in the series, and then describe, briefly, what those two examples might mean about her unconscious conflicts.

c) Does she appear to have an Oedipus complex? Why or why not?

d) What transference theme would you expect to arise in therapy?

3) Jungian analytic/depth:

a) What is the dreamer's animus like? (found in male characters and groups of males; see "Blocking Ourselves")

b) What is the dreamer's shadow like? (found in female characters; see "Those Who Block Our Way")

c) How would you expect the shadow and animus to affect her waking life perceptions, relationships, and behavior?

d) Is the dreamer creative? Dream themes found more frequently in the dreams of creative people (loss, children, inner obstacles) are discussed in The Creative Dreamer. According to that chapter and the chapter on "Creative People," in what ways do her dream series lead you to conclude she is or is not creative?