Father in a dream: meaning in al-Nabulsi

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Abd al-Ghani al-Nabulsi, Ta'tir al-Anam fi Ta'bir al-Manam

The human being in a dream is the intended purpose, and the best thing a man may see in his dream is his parents, or his grandfathers, or his grandmothers, or one of his relatives.

Ta'tir al-Anam fi Ta'bir al-Manam, p. 21

And whoever sees his father in his dream: if he is in need, his provision will come to him from where he does not reckon,

Ta'tir al-Anam fi Ta'bir al-Manam, p. 21

or someone will be generous to him,

Ta'tir al-Anam fi Ta'bir al-Manam, p. 21

and if he has someone absent, that person will arrive to him,

Ta'tir al-Anam fi Ta'bir al-Manam, p. 21

and if he has a pain, he will recover from it.

Ta'tir al-Anam fi Ta'bir al-Manam, p. 21

(And whoever sees) that his father erected a building and he himself raised its roof, then he will complete his father's works which he had, in religion or in worldly matters, and will perfect them.

Ta'tir al-Anam fi Ta'bir al-Manam, p. 21

Freud and Jung, a separate view

the father serves as the man of straw to represent others, and hence the dream dares thus openly to concern itself with a person who is usually hallowed, because there is present the certain knowledge that he is not in reality intended.

Sigmund Freud, The Interpretation of Dreams / On Dreams / Dream Psychology, The Interpretation of Dreams, ch. VI The Dream-Work

The father represents the active repulse of the incest wish of the son.

Carl Jung, Psychology of the Unconscious (1916) / Collected Papers (1917), Psychology of the Unconscious, ch. V Symbolism of the Mother and of Rebirth

The crime, unconsciously wished for by the son, is imputed to the father under the guise of a pretended murderous purpose, this being the cause of the mortal fear of the son for the father, a frequent neurotic symptom.

Carl Jung, Psychology of the Unconscious (1916) / Collected Papers (1917), Psychology of the Unconscious, ch. V Symbolism of the Mother and of Rebirth

Kinds and conditions of Father

father-in-law and mother-in-law

Artemidorus of Daldis, Oneirocritica (1644 English translation)

TO dream to sée a father in law, or mother in law dead, or alive, is ill, especially using violence, or threatning:

Oneirocritica (1644 English translation), The Third Booke of Artimedorus His Exposition of Dreames.

using gentle spéech, and good entertainment, are vain hopes and deceits.

Oneirocritica (1644 English translation), The Third Booke of Artimedorus His Exposition of Dreames.

father and mother

Freud and Jung, a separate view

_In religion the regressive reanimation of the father-and-mother imago is organized into a system._

Carl Jung, Psychology of the Unconscious (1916) / Collected Papers (1917), Psychology of the Unconscious, ch. IV The Song of the Moth

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