Mother in a dream: meaning in Ibn Sirin and al-Nabulsi

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Freud and Jung, a separate view

This also seems to refer to Rome, for she is the mother of peoples and possessed all lands.

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

It is not the physical actual mother, but the libido of the son, the object of which was once the mother.

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

A very simple method of avoidance is to transform the mother into another being or to rejuvenate[453] her after birth has occurred, to have her disappear again or have her change back.

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

but his mother is the “communion of the saints,” the church,

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

Therefore, the libido, after having seen a “Helen in every woman” for so long a time, sets out on a search for the difficult to obtain, the worshipped, but perhaps unattainable, goal, and which in the unconscious is the mother.

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

An early Egyptian hymn[470] even raises an accusation against the mother Isis because she destroys the sun-god Rê by treachery. It was interpreted as the ill-will of the mother towards her son that she banished and betrayed him.

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 Mother

one's mother

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

In a dream she takes precedence over his father in the rulings of interpretation.

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

If he sees that his mother has given birth to him: if he is sick, it indicates his death, because the dead man is wrapped in rags just as the infant is wrapped.

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

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.

return into the mother

Freud and Jung, a separate view

When the sun-god, little by little, retires on the back of the heavenly cow, just as poor Lazarus returns into Abraham’s bosom, each has the same significance; they return into the mother, in order to rise as Horus.

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

Thus the fate of Osiris is explained: he passes into the mother’s womb, the chest, the sea, the tree, the column of Astartes; he is dismembered, re-formed, and reappears again in his son, Hor-pi-chrud.

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

mother as onlooker

Freud and Jung, a separate view

The situation of the dream is then attributed to one person, and the other—as a rule the more important one—is introduced as an inactive and unconcerned spectator. The dreamer relates something like “My mother was also there” (Stekel).

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

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

separation from the mother

Freud and Jung, a separate view

The separation of the son from the mother signifies the separation of man from the generic consciousness of animals, from that infantile archaic thought characterized by the absence of individual consciousness.

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

mother-imago

Freud and Jung, a separate view

The separation from the mother-imago, the birth out of one’s self, reconciles all conflicts through the sufferings.

Carl Jung, Psychology of the Unconscious (1916) / Collected Papers (1917), Psychology of the Unconscious, ch. VI The Battle for Deliverance from the Mother

incest with mother and sister

attributed to Ibn Sirin, Muntakhab al-Kalam fi Tafsir al-Ahlam

(It is related) that a man came to Ibn Sirin and mentioned to him that he had intercourse with his mother, and when he finished with her he had intercourse with his sister, and it was as though his right hand had been cut off. So Ibn Sirin wrote his answer on a slip of paper, out of shame at speaking to the man about that, and he said: This man is disobedient to his parents, a severer of kinship ties, stingy with kindness, and one who wrongs his mother and his sister.

Muntakhab al-Kalam fi Tafsir al-Ahlam, pp. 734–736

intercourse with dead mother in her grave

attributed to Ibn Sirin, Muntakhab al-Kalam fi Tafsir al-Ahlam

Whoever sees as though he is having intercourse with his dead mother in her grave, then he will die, because of the saying of the Exalted: "From it We created you, and into it We return you."

Muntakhab al-Kalam fi Tafsir al-Ahlam, pp. 734–736

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