Sonhos de criança no referencial teórico da psicologia analítica

Abstract

The aim of this work is to study the inclusion of dreams in children s counseling adopting the Analytical Psychology approach. Jung did not recommend children s counseling, once he believed children s symptoms were due to the parents psyche. He recommended that parents should be treated instead of their sons and daughters. Jung s idea was that the children s Ego was still in the process of construction, and the Self did not yet have any performance. Fordham remade the concept of Self, observing its performance since the beginning of life, instead of after the maturity period, as Jung supported. Fordham worked with children in psychotherapy using Jung s method, including the dreams. This dissertation expects to show, through children s dream collected in psychotherapy, the possibility of work with children s dreams, utilizing the theory proposed by Jung. The dreams were collected in the last twenty two years, in psychotherapy sessions, without the aim, at the time, of producing a dissertation with these subjects. As the collected material suits the objective of this work, it was described, with the dreamers permission. The selected dreams have themes or shapes characteristically of children in different ages. They were described chronologically. Dreams pertaining to dreamers that were not founded or did not allow their use were not included in this paper