Dreaming And Movies: The Four Ages Of Love

2024 Author: Harry Day | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-17 15:43

The concept of the Dreams and Cinema Club is simple in form and fascinating in its spread. First, the participant's dream, preferably a large one (archetypal, with the symbolism of collective archetypes). Then the dream is worked out in the group in any of the possible ways: immersion in the dream space as in a real story with a discussion of sensations, feelings, thoughts and guesses about what it is and why; highlighting dream units and discussing what is happening in a dream on behalf of a particular character; expansion of the dream space of one person in the collective psyche of the group. As a result, the applicant sees his dream multiplied by the residence and the associations of other participants. Then we watch a collective dream created by culture in the person of a screenwriter, director, cameraman, actors, spectators and specially selected by the presenter as a continuation of the applicant's dream.

At the last meeting, I received permission from the participants to publish the content of dreams.

So:

Dream of October 31:Ghetto. Twilight. A closed space from which you just can't get out. Followed. There are people, but I don't see them. I only feel that they are there. Suddenly I find a piece of torn gold chain and a ring (gold does not shine, dirty, not cleaned). I was delighted. Took it so that no one could see (furtively). She hid it in her pocket. And think what to do? I can’t bear it, they will notice it, take it away. And I can’t wear it, they will also notice. They will understand that they have deceived. I am afraid that they will be caught in deception, but I do not want to give it away. And I keep thinking: maybe this is the gold of those who passed !? I walk past them, and the gold is in my pocket. My focus is on the pocket and the gold. Alarming. People started to enter from the other side of the ghetto. I tried it too. Came out. No one caught. Gold is with me. I'm free. I went into the ghetto again. Understand. That I can go in and out. I went in. I hear a voice: "whoever has what, you can give it to melt". I focused on my pocket again. And I think: I can give it myself for melting and no one will know. They will not get it, but will be mine. They discover that in addition to the ring, I have a wedding ring. And I can see the difference. The ring and chain are dull and the ring is shiny. I want to put it on my finger, but I'm afraid. I am standing in the bright compartment of the ghetto. At the entrance or exit. I see Irina (a kind person, lives with her mother). She is in good spirits. I look at her and I feel good. I understand that the exit is open, I can exit. And I keep thinking: give everything or not give it up. I look at Irina.

Dream about closed space, in which there is a sense of self, voices and a sense of the presence of someone else. The dreamer defines this space as a ghetto - a place where someone is held and from where there is no exit. Associations in the group: “we have to get out of there”, “the main thing is to get out of here”, either intrauterine stay, or mother's place in a broad sense, being captured by the mother's and the desire to return there again in regression.

Jewelry, the owner of which is unknown, but which you want to appropriate and not give to anyone:

The gold is not mine, but for me, to take away in memory of those who no longer exist, but to whom they belonged, the Gestapo, a sense of anxiety that they can take away, melt, take out, gold in the mud like grease and blood on the body of a newborn, gifts from men, theft, a maternal gift, a chain as a gift from a stepmother, who was constantly torn, someone is lucky, and someone has to steal, earn, deserve, standard, resource, amulet, the difference between silver (youthful girl's jewelry) and gold (jewelry for an adult girls, women), a chain as a connection with the family. In tradition, a daughter often inherits jewelry from her mother, a maternal ring that can be passed on to a granddaughter

The idea of melting down and the fear of something personal and valuable will be unified, turn into a shapeless piece of gold, devoid of personal meaning. And we see here the dreamer's unwillingness to part with it - "I myself can melt this into what I need."

An engagement ring appears along with the ring.

The ring symbolism is universaland is considered not only as a woman's adornment, but also as an indication of the marriage union and marriage. You can meet with a man for sex, live with him, but until he gives a ring, offering to marry, a woman will not become a wife, but he will not become a husband. A ring given by a man is serious. The special, fateful and mystical significance of this event has not been lost today.

In analytical psychologysymbols can label social identity, persona, and external presentation. Here the rings are nothing more than a sign of wealth, well-being, status and greatness. And they can also relate to the deep levels of the psyche. According to Maria Louise von Franz, the ring is a symbol of the Self, and putting on the ring to another person indicates the willingness to be with him at the deepest self-level.

The ring has two main functions (besides its circular shape, which creates the image of the Self), symbolizing either interconnection (connections) or bonds (fetters). For example, a wedding ring can represent both oneness with a partner and the bondage of marriage: this is why some people, when traveling, take off the ring and put it in their pocket! Thus, everything depends on the person's attitude to this symbol. Putting a ring on a woman, a man, regardless of whether he realizes it or not, expresses his desire to connect with her on a super-personal level, and not just start a fleeting love affair. He wants to emphasize by this that the connection is established forever, since the ring symbolizes connection through the Self, and not just through the ego. For example, in the Catholic religion, marriage is a sacrament, not just a union of two egos who decide to create, as Jung said, "a small financial community for raising children." If marriage is something more, then it is necessary to recognize that it also contains something super-personal or, in religious terms, something divine; the word "forever" has a deeper meaning here and means that in this case it is not just about falling in love or calculating, which could unite people before. Again, the ring symbolizes eternal union through the Self. It seems that marriage is for the sake of sustaining the individuation process. Confirmation of this can be found in the analysis of various family problems or observation of a person in the last days before the wedding. Marriage allows you to look at everyday problems from a completely different point of view, it forms a new attitude towards them. But be that as it may, it is fate that helps a person to achieve greater awareness, and not give up marriage at the first difficulty. It is this idea that is emphasized in symbolic form with the engagement ring, which represents union through the Self.

So, we are already talking about the jewel in the form of relationships., the ring is not as such, but as a symbol of these relations. My relationship with another person is my and his personal value. We are not alone, whatever we are. Beautiful or ordinary, smart or stupid, healthy or sick, young or old, the main thing is that they are not alone.

The child-parent bond is personified by a ring and a torn chain, a bond between a man and a woman with a wedding ring.

Next, watch a movie The Four Ages of Love (2008)- four short stories, where, in my opinion, the authors leave the main idea, the thread of the film on the surface, and therefore the mystery of the film is not obvious. If you want to hide something, leave it on the surface.

The four ages of love are not only about the four ages of human life with different tasks, expectations and anxieties, but also about the fact that each person has his own pair.

In the first novel, young people are connected by sexual attraction, challenges and dangers that must be overcome in order to become adults. In the second novel, an aging couple - an allusion to Moses and Sarah - is linked by their long life together, patience and, finally, a miracle. The third short story is about women's search for men and women's happiness. Loneliness is removed by the meeting of two women, in which each gives the other what is missing. The final short story about a married couple forever connected with each other by grief. At the same time, there is another pair of the holy fool and the feeble-minded, and we see that even people thrown to the sidelines of life should not be alone.

Such a movie about the jewel of a relationship- mother and child, grandmother and granddaughter, man and woman, husband and wife, friends, girlfriends, enemies and other vertical and horizontal connections.

And the Lord God said: It is not good for the man to be alone; let us make him a helper corresponding to him (Gen. 2-18)

If the topic is interesting and responsive, you watch this film, and the dreamer saw in it something from her past and present. For a meeting at Cinema, it is important that the film reveals new aspects of the current life situation, expands the usual vision and through new meanings gives a perspective of the future.

The psyche needs help in the transition from one state to another. On an individual basis, such assistance is provided by dreams that we can remember and analyze. The same function is performed by collective dreams in the form of the so-called. films with meaning.