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The Dreamer's Odyssey: A Guide To The Creative Unconscious
Dreams have always been important to humanity, but in modern times we have lost the ability to understand what our dreams are telling us. In The Dreamer’s Odyssey , the author provides a step-by-step guide to help the individual interpret and work through their own dreams. It can also be used by counsellors and other professionals to give them an understanding of the basis of Jung’s dream analysis. The 10 week guide has been adapted from the courses that the author, Jacquie Flecknoe-Brown, has run successfully for many years. Closely linked to the theory of C. G. Jung, each chapter includes an interpreted dream relevant to the weekly content. It also includes analysis of dream-theory, and interpretation of mythical material to illustrate theoretical points. Working with dreams and their images helps us to be more conscious of ourselves, our shadows, our opposites, and our purpose. Dreams can ease our burdens, help us problem-solve, improve our memories, and enlighten us. The dream is a natural and living phenomenon—working to understand our dreams will have an effect on many aspects of our lives.
200 pages, Paperback
Published April 30, 2020
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July 20, 2021
If you can only read one book about dream interpretation, make it this one! The Dreamer’s Odyssey is an incredible guide to decoding the messages from your unconscious.
Jacquie Flecknoe-Brown is a practicing Jungian analyst from Australia so she’s very well-versed on the topic of dreamwork. I actually discovered her through a Reddit AMA that she did last year, so be sure to check that out too. I found it very illuminating!
The Dreamer’s Odyssey breaks down dream interpretation with aplomb, presenting it in a highly digestible format. I really appreciated the author’s journaling questions which helps create a structure for your dream that is very reminiscent of a story arc.
The book also includes a lot of fascinating information about the shadow, anima, animus, ego and Self. And it’s shared in a way that I found much more accessible than normal. Flecknoe-Brown also touches on how to ground your dreams in the waking world through art, ritual and symbolism as well as the benefits (and risks) of active imagination.
I cannot recommend The Dreamer’s Odyssey enough for fellow Jungian junkies like myself, as well as anyone with a passing curiosity about the enigmatic symbolism of Dreamtime. There’s truly something here for everyone.
Jacquie Flecknoe-Brown is a practicing Jungian analyst from Australia so she’s very well-versed on the topic of dreamwork. I actually discovered her through a Reddit AMA that she did last year, so be sure to check that out too. I found it very illuminating!
The Dreamer’s Odyssey breaks down dream interpretation with aplomb, presenting it in a highly digestible format. I really appreciated the author’s journaling questions which helps create a structure for your dream that is very reminiscent of a story arc.
The book also includes a lot of fascinating information about the shadow, anima, animus, ego and Self. And it’s shared in a way that I found much more accessible than normal. Flecknoe-Brown also touches on how to ground your dreams in the waking world through art, ritual and symbolism as well as the benefits (and risks) of active imagination.
I cannot recommend The Dreamer’s Odyssey enough for fellow Jungian junkies like myself, as well as anyone with a passing curiosity about the enigmatic symbolism of Dreamtime. There’s truly something here for everyone.
July 29, 2020
This wonderfully designed and written book came to me as a revelation in my own dream work with clients. And let me add; to my personal dream work as well. There is a lot of material to be chewed by the professional, and a lot of ideas to ponder on for the dreamer him/herself. But I want to underline that this is not a do-it-yourself handbook all the way forward to dealing with dreams and symbolic material. It is rather a handbook for the first meetings with the symbols of the collective unconcious. Suggestion for amplifications (finding corresponding material in myths) are given, which gives the reader a very special experience of having doors opened to the world of the unconcious. And how to work with it. The book also underlines the relevance of working with the dreams a deux, both in the way the text approaches the reader in a very persoanl manner, and in the suggestions - and precautions - given. But it should also work well in discussions groups where concepts for jungian dreamwork are explored and applied in dreamwork. Recommended!
Stian Bjærke, clinical psychologist & jungian analyst, Lillehammer Norway.
Stian Bjærke, clinical psychologist & jungian analyst, Lillehammer Norway.
June 6, 2020
*This Review is based on a e-arc from netgalley given in exchange for an Honest Review
What I Liked
1. The inclusion of sample dreams to help see how interpretation techniques can be applied is exceptionally helpful
2. The early focus on obtaining and keeping a dream journal is very important to me as a reader of other dream interpretation books. Often this very simple and important step is skipped entirely
3. The Bibliography and further reading sections allow for an understanding of where the author obtains their Ideas presented throughout the text.
4. Wonderful advice for working with friends and professionals
What Could Have Been Done Better
1. It would have been nice to see pages included in the book to use as an early dream journal . This could be remedied by selling the book packaged with a small journal or maybe adding a few journal pages after each of the exercises.
2. there were some rendering issues I think may have just been my chosen reading device.
Who I Would Recommend this book for ?
The Dreamer"s Odyssey is a resource that may be of particular assistance to those looking to avoid the pagan undertones found in popular guides and lean more heavily into a psychological lens.This book would be a good fit for those interested in dream interpretation that have struggled with the more typical dream symbol books found on book store shelves.
What I Liked
1. The inclusion of sample dreams to help see how interpretation techniques can be applied is exceptionally helpful
2. The early focus on obtaining and keeping a dream journal is very important to me as a reader of other dream interpretation books. Often this very simple and important step is skipped entirely
3. The Bibliography and further reading sections allow for an understanding of where the author obtains their Ideas presented throughout the text.
4. Wonderful advice for working with friends and professionals
What Could Have Been Done Better
1. It would have been nice to see pages included in the book to use as an early dream journal . This could be remedied by selling the book packaged with a small journal or maybe adding a few journal pages after each of the exercises.
2. there were some rendering issues I think may have just been my chosen reading device.
Who I Would Recommend this book for ?
The Dreamer"s Odyssey is a resource that may be of particular assistance to those looking to avoid the pagan undertones found in popular guides and lean more heavily into a psychological lens.This book would be a good fit for those interested in dream interpretation that have struggled with the more typical dream symbol books found on book store shelves.
June 16, 2020
I enjoyed this book. This book provides a practical approach to understanding and interpreting dreams, based
on Jungian psychology. The author suggests keeping a dream journal, as a way of understanding ourselves on a deeper level, which may offer insight into our 'dark side' or subconscious.
The author gives concrete examples of dream interpretations from her own dreams, as well as others. I think the author did an excellent job breaking down the information into bite size pieces, which I appreciated. For instance, she states, "Pay attention to the last sentence of the dream, as you have written it down. This gives the solution from the unconscious. The end is a response to the beginning.."
I also think the author did an excellent job stressing the importance of dreams and their value. "They speak to us in symbolic imagery, rising to our awareness from unknown, unconscious depths and want to be made conscious." I have read other dream books, that offer flat, one sided interpretations. I found this book to be much more helpful in teaching the reader/dreamer ways to analyze and interpret dreams for themselves.
Thank you NetGalley and Ortus Press the opportunity to review this delightful book!
on Jungian psychology. The author suggests keeping a dream journal, as a way of understanding ourselves on a deeper level, which may offer insight into our 'dark side' or subconscious.
The author gives concrete examples of dream interpretations from her own dreams, as well as others. I think the author did an excellent job breaking down the information into bite size pieces, which I appreciated. For instance, she states, "Pay attention to the last sentence of the dream, as you have written it down. This gives the solution from the unconscious. The end is a response to the beginning.."
I also think the author did an excellent job stressing the importance of dreams and their value. "They speak to us in symbolic imagery, rising to our awareness from unknown, unconscious depths and want to be made conscious." I have read other dream books, that offer flat, one sided interpretations. I found this book to be much more helpful in teaching the reader/dreamer ways to analyze and interpret dreams for themselves.
Thank you NetGalley and Ortus Press the opportunity to review this delightful book!
March 31, 2024
This is a completely different sort of book for me. I have become increasingly interested in dreams - what do they tell us? do they tell us anything at all? why do we dream?
The opportunity to read this book came up at the perfect time for me and gave me the chance to understand more about our dreams.
As a complete newbie to this area, at times I found the book a little hard to understand - I think the author tries to achieve quite a difficult balance as this book is aimed at lay people and professionals so it has to achieve a balance between being accessible enough to those with no knowledge while being useful enough to those with more knowledge. This is a really hard thing to achieve and I think probably contributed to my feelings of sometimes feeling a bit lost.
That being said there is consistent format followed throughout the book which meant every chapter had aspects which I could understand and follow. The case studies were especially interesting and the journal prompts were great. I love to journal and I found the prompts really helpful and they provided great guides for my own journalling activity.
I enjoyed that this book based dream interpretation on psychological theories and ideas. Sometimes when I have looked into things like dream interpretation I have found the content a bit 'airy-fairy' but this wasn't the case in this book which was something that gave it more credibility for me.
One thing that was abundantly clear through reading the book, was the importance placed on dreams and the value they have. This is something I have always suspected and I think the author did a great job of convincing me this is the case.
This is a book I will be going back to and intend to do more of the activities, it was a fascinating read
The opportunity to read this book came up at the perfect time for me and gave me the chance to understand more about our dreams.
As a complete newbie to this area, at times I found the book a little hard to understand - I think the author tries to achieve quite a difficult balance as this book is aimed at lay people and professionals so it has to achieve a balance between being accessible enough to those with no knowledge while being useful enough to those with more knowledge. This is a really hard thing to achieve and I think probably contributed to my feelings of sometimes feeling a bit lost.
That being said there is consistent format followed throughout the book which meant every chapter had aspects which I could understand and follow. The case studies were especially interesting and the journal prompts were great. I love to journal and I found the prompts really helpful and they provided great guides for my own journalling activity.
I enjoyed that this book based dream interpretation on psychological theories and ideas. Sometimes when I have looked into things like dream interpretation I have found the content a bit 'airy-fairy' but this wasn't the case in this book which was something that gave it more credibility for me.
One thing that was abundantly clear through reading the book, was the importance placed on dreams and the value they have. This is something I have always suspected and I think the author did a great job of convincing me this is the case.
This is a book I will be going back to and intend to do more of the activities, it was a fascinating read
April 7, 2024
A Guide to the creative unconscious, this book by Jungian analysis, Jacquie Fleck-Brown, is about dreams in a very different way that what I expected this book to be about. I thought it would be based on what every type of dream, possible, that would be explored, with finding out what dreams actually means. But these dreams were based on by therapists Jacquie, something completely different, from what I have ever known, and has in fact educated me to an entirely new subject that I didn’t know existed.
Throughout inside there are sections of exercise beginning your dreamwork journal, where you write down about your dreams. The dreams that are talked about throughout this book are on topics of dreams from images of the unconscious, about the feminine principle with dreams of the mountain, dreams of the ocean, and dreams the great mother, or dreaming about a letter from an angry friend these are just a few of the topics that are talked about. But I’m not sure of how often people dream about these type of things, but I expect some people will do.
As reading on I found this book about dreams, on a completely different scale, it’s about how the word Jung, is used in the terms of the unconscious, not the subconscious. The unconscious is where consciousness comes from. First we are unconscious, and then consciousness develops. At the same time Jung used to see, like the ancient Greeks used to see, that the human mind is able to make visible some of the contents of the unconscious through dreams.
Throughout inside there are sections of exercise beginning your dreamwork journal, where you write down about your dreams. The dreams that are talked about throughout this book are on topics of dreams from images of the unconscious, about the feminine principle with dreams of the mountain, dreams of the ocean, and dreams the great mother, or dreaming about a letter from an angry friend these are just a few of the topics that are talked about. But I’m not sure of how often people dream about these type of things, but I expect some people will do.
As reading on I found this book about dreams, on a completely different scale, it’s about how the word Jung, is used in the terms of the unconscious, not the subconscious. The unconscious is where consciousness comes from. First we are unconscious, and then consciousness develops. At the same time Jung used to see, like the ancient Greeks used to see, that the human mind is able to make visible some of the contents of the unconscious through dreams.
April 13, 2024
The Dreamers Odyssey by Jacquie Fleaknoe-Brown.
Dreams have always been important to humanity, but in modern times we have lost the ability to understand what our dreams are telling us. In The Dreamer’s Odyssey, the author provides a step-by-step guide to help the individual interpret and work through their own dreams. It can also be used by counsellors and other professionals to give them an understanding of the basis of Jung’s dream analysis. The 10 week guide has been adapted from the courses that the author, Jacquie Flecknoe-Brown, has run successfully for many years. Closely linked to the theory of C. G. Jung, each chapter includes an interpreted dream relevant to the weekly content. It also includes analysis of dream-theory, and interpretation of mythical material to illustrate theoretical points. Working with dreams and their images helps us to be more conscious of ourselves, our shadows, our opposites, and our purpose. Dreams can ease our burdens, help us problem-solve, improve our memories, and enlighten us. The dream is a natural, and living phenomenon – working to understand our dreams will have an effect on many aspects of our lives.
This is a really good and interesting book. I loved the cover. It's so interesting. It has dream notes and tips. It has a lot. Over ten weeks. This book is different. It has helped me a lot. Although I don't always remember my dreams. But this book may be very helpful. 4*.
Dreams have always been important to humanity, but in modern times we have lost the ability to understand what our dreams are telling us. In The Dreamer’s Odyssey, the author provides a step-by-step guide to help the individual interpret and work through their own dreams. It can also be used by counsellors and other professionals to give them an understanding of the basis of Jung’s dream analysis. The 10 week guide has been adapted from the courses that the author, Jacquie Flecknoe-Brown, has run successfully for many years. Closely linked to the theory of C. G. Jung, each chapter includes an interpreted dream relevant to the weekly content. It also includes analysis of dream-theory, and interpretation of mythical material to illustrate theoretical points. Working with dreams and their images helps us to be more conscious of ourselves, our shadows, our opposites, and our purpose. Dreams can ease our burdens, help us problem-solve, improve our memories, and enlighten us. The dream is a natural, and living phenomenon – working to understand our dreams will have an effect on many aspects of our lives.
This is a really good and interesting book. I loved the cover. It's so interesting. It has dream notes and tips. It has a lot. Over ten weeks. This book is different. It has helped me a lot. Although I don't always remember my dreams. But this book may be very helpful. 4*.
April 3, 2024
I've always found dreams fascinating. I've tried to understand them before but never trusted the source material I was looking at. When I had the opportunity to read this Odyssey, I wanted to see what it was like.
The Dreamers Odyssey is set out in ten-week segments, breaking down the process of best understanding your dreams. I read the first few weeks as weekly chunks, giving myself a couple of weeks of recorded dreams to work with as I went along. When I had these dreams, I read two weeks a week, especially when related sections were broken down.
I found this book great at breaking down the process of gaining an understanding of my dreams. It provides a method to follow and a summary in the appendix. It would be best to have a dream symbolism dictionary alongside it to provide more information about my dreams. This book only provides so far based on the dream examples within. The author does give recommendations at the back of the book.
Overall, I thought it was a structured book that provides examples and further reading on how to analyse your dreams best. I liked that there was a counsellor portion each week, too. Though I'm not a counsellor, I still read these and found them complementary. It is a book that I would pick up again alongside the appropriate dictionary.
The Dreamers Odyssey is set out in ten-week segments, breaking down the process of best understanding your dreams. I read the first few weeks as weekly chunks, giving myself a couple of weeks of recorded dreams to work with as I went along. When I had these dreams, I read two weeks a week, especially when related sections were broken down.
I found this book great at breaking down the process of gaining an understanding of my dreams. It provides a method to follow and a summary in the appendix. It would be best to have a dream symbolism dictionary alongside it to provide more information about my dreams. This book only provides so far based on the dream examples within. The author does give recommendations at the back of the book.
Overall, I thought it was a structured book that provides examples and further reading on how to analyse your dreams best. I liked that there was a counsellor portion each week, too. Though I'm not a counsellor, I still read these and found them complementary. It is a book that I would pick up again alongside the appropriate dictionary.
March 30, 2024
I really enjoyed this book, and I think that I’m gonna have to do a bit deeper in it over the next few weeks as I think there’s a lot of really insightful and interesting stuff around your brain and your subconscious and your dreams and it will be a really interesting opportunity to really analyse what’s happening with me. I also really like that, there’s space to write on your thoughts and there’s prompts as well. Thank you for sending me a copy of this.
April 10, 2024
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