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Dreaming of a conflict : what can this symbol evoke?
A conflict presupposes two positions that cannot be held at once : that is what distinguishes it from a disagreement, where each can stay where they are. Dreaming of a conflict has no single meaning : it depends on who opposed whom, and on what the opposition made visible.
Two positions in one person
Figures met in dreams often designate parts of the dreamer rather than real people. A dreamed conflict therefore frequently stages, in the form of two adversaries, two inner demands that cannot be satisfied together.
Analytical psychology holds this opposition to be normal and even fertile : it is the tension between opposites that sets a life in motion. The problem is not having a conflict, it is settling it too quickly by eliminating one of the two parts.
The question it poses is therefore : in your dream's quarrel, whom did you find in the wrong? The answer generally designates the part of you that you judge illegitimate.
What opposition makes visible
A conflict has a virtue nothing else has : it obliges each side to say what it wants. As long as all goes well, positions stay implicit ; as soon as they oppose, they get stated.
Dreams often use that function. They stage a quarrel not to announce a rupture but to bring out what nobody was saying : an old disagreement, a never-expressed expectation, a tacit rule someone has stopped following.
What to remember is what was said in the dream. Dreamers retain the confrontation and forget the words, though it is often one precise sentence that carried the whole message.
What is opposed changes the reading
- Quarrelling with someone close — a part of you that person represents, more often than a real disagreement.
- A conflict whose object is unknown — a tension prior to the motives ascribed to it.
- Finding someone in the wrong in the dream — the part of you that you judge illegitimate.
- A confrontation that does not conclude — an opposition it would be premature to settle.
- Watching without intervening — a conflict that concerns you and where you took no position.
- A sudden reconciliation — a possible appeasement, whose way dreams sometimes show before consciousness.
A psychological reading, not a ready-made box
Jung considered the tension of opposites the motor of psychic life, and distrusted swift resolutions : suppressing one of the two parts produces an apparent calm and a lasting impoverishment. He noted that conflict dreams often stage adversaries both belonging to the dreamer. Other readings retain the revealing function of the quarrel, which obliges one to state what remained tacit.
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