<p>I'm reading <em>Dreams</em> by Carl Jung, and I couldn't understand a specific paragraph. Maybe I'm missing something so obvious that he didn't bother to write. It is the entry numbered 542:</p>

<p><img src="https://i.sstatic.net/SouD6.png" alt="enter image description here"></p>

<p>What did the patient find out about his fiancee, i.e. what suspicion was "well founded" ?</p>

<p>Thanks !</p>

<h2>Edit</h2>

<p>Here is the plain text :</p>

<blockquote>
  <p>On the basis of these conclusions and for the purpose of ascertaining
  the meaning of the dream. I have developed a procedure which I call
  “taking up the context.” This consists in making sure that every shade
  of meaning which each salient feature of the dream has for the dreamer
  is determined by the associations of the dreamer himself. I therefore
  proceed in the same way as I would in deciphering a difficult text.
  This method does not always produce an immediately understandable
  result; often the only thing that emerges, at first, is a hint that
  looks significant. To give an example: I was working once with a young
  man who mentioned in his anamnesis that he was happily engaged, and to
  a girl of "good" family. In his dreams she frequently appeared in very
  unflattering guise. The context showed that the dreamer’s unconscious
  connected the figure of his bride with all kinds of scandalous stories
  from quite another source-which was incomprehensible to him and
  naturally also to me. But, from the constant repetition of such
  combinations, I had to conclude that, despite his conscious
  resistance, there existed in him an unconscious tendency to show his
  bride in this ambiguous light. He told me that if such a thing were
  true it would be a catastrophe. His acute neurosis had set in a short
  time after his engagement. Although it was something he could not bear
  to think about, this suspicion of his bride seemed to me a point of
  such capital importance that I advised him to instigate some
  inquiries. These showed the suspicion to be well founded. and the
  shock of the unpleasant discovery did not kill the patient but, on the
  contrary, cured him of his neurosis and also of his bride. Thus,
  although the taking up of the context resulted in an “unthinkable"
  meaning and hence in an apparently nonsensical interpretation. it
  proved correct in the light of facts which were subsequently
  disclosed. This case is of exemplary simplicity, and it is superfluous
  to point out that only rarely do dreams have so simple a solution.</p>
</blockquote>

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What did Jung's patient find out?
jeff
# What did Jung's patient find out?

(Asked by: username_0 on 2015-02-08)

I'm reading *Dreams* by Carl Jung, and I couldn't understand a specific paragraph. Maybe I'm missing something so obvious that he didn't bother to write. It is the entry numbered 542:

![enter image description here](https://i.sstatic.net/SouD6.png)

What did the patient find out about his fiancee, i.e. what suspicion was "well founded" ?

Thanks !

## Edit

Here is the plain text :

> On the basis of these conclusions and for the purpose of ascertaining
> the meaning of the dream. I have developed a procedure which I call
> “taking up the context.” This consists in making sure that every shade
> of meaning which each salient feature of the dream has for the dreamer
> is determined by the associations of the dreamer himself. I therefore
> proceed in the same way as I would in deciphering a difficult text.
> This method does not always produce an immediately understandable
> result; often the only thing that emerges, at first, is a hint that
> looks significant. To give an example: I was working once with a young
> man who mentioned in his anamnesis that he was happily engaged, and to
> a girl of "good" family. In his dreams she frequently appeared in very
> unflattering guise. The context showed that the dreamer’s unconscious
> connected the figure of his bride with all kinds of scandalous stories
> from quite another source-which was incomprehensible to him and
> naturally also to me. But, from the constant repetition of such
> combinations, I had to conclude that, despite his conscious
> resistance, there existed in him an unconscious tendency to show his
> bride in this ambiguous light. He told me that if such a thing were
> true it would be a catastrophe. His acute neurosis had set in a short
> time after his engagement. Although it was something he could not bear
> to think about, this suspicion of his bride seemed to me a point of
> such capital importance that I advised him to instigate some
> inquiries. These showed the suspicion to be well founded. and the
> shock of the unpleasant discovery did not kill the patient but, on the
> contrary, cured him of his neurosis and also of his bride. Thus,
> although the taking up of the context resulted in an “unthinkable"
> meaning and hence in an apparently nonsensical interpretation. it
> proved correct in the light of facts which were subsequently
> disclosed. This case is of exemplary simplicity, and it is superfluous
> to point out that only rarely do dreams have so simple a solution.

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