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In the first half of life, we strive to develop ego strength and achieve our dreams. To want, will, and work is worthwhile and adaptive--until a life dream, relationship, or identity fades or fails. Should we hang in and hang on - or let go? When does perseverance become pointless, or hope turn rancid in refusal to accept disappointment, defeat, or depression?

In letting go, we relinquish our hard-won, heroic \u201cI\u201d and yield to an encounter with the unconscious. Jung says that although \u201cI was afraid of losing command of myself\u2026I let myself drop.\u201d He came to realize that \u201cThis identity and my heroic idealism had to be abandoned, for there are higher things than the ego\u2019s will, and to these one must bow.\u201d Jung discovered, as may we, that in letting go something greater can meet and sustain us.\xa0

HERE\u2019S THE DREAM WE ANALYZE:

\u201cI\u2019m in a dining room. It\u2019s in an older house with rooms like boxes for different purposes. There is the requisite brown wood dining room table. I\u2019m not sure I should be in there. It feels old and used, and the air feels stale. I look up at there is a plain dark four-blade fan. It\u2019s motionless. But I\u2019m awe-struck by the ancient golden raven perched on the fan blade closest to me. I immediately knew it was the ancient raven. It was looking at me. It was large and had multiple layers of ancient golden feathers. Some big. Some small. Its many golden feathered tail hung down from the fan like a peacock. We just stared at each other. I knew deep inside this ancient raven was connected to me.\u201d\xa0

\xa0REFERENCES

C.G. Jung. Memories, Dreams, Reflections

Randolphe M. Nesse, M.D. Good Reasons for Bad Feelings

\xa0RESOURCES:

Learn to Analyze your own Dreams:\xa0 https://thisjungianlife.com/enroll/