Regina Abt-Baechi

Animals and Animal Dreams

The Cat, The Dog and The Horse

hardcover, 238 pages, 49 illustrations, ISBN 978-3-9522608-9-0, LivingHumanHeritage

On the basis of a lifelong relationship with cats, dogs and horses, Regina Abt – a graduate of the Zurich C.G. Jung Institute in 1985 who worked for many years with Dr. M.-L. von Franz – has the ability to understand the dream motifs of cat, dog and horse in their unique and life-guiding ways. The personal and archetypal dimension of the psyche is nourished by this book.

Animals in dreams tell us something about our own inner instinctual nature from which civilized man has increasingly distanced himself. They provide indications as to how we can once again show due respect for this instinctual life energy with its hidden knowledge, and they also show us where we underestimate and violate them. “Separation from his instinctual nature inevitably plunges civilized man into the conflict between conscious and unconscious spirit and nature, knowledge and faith, a split that becomes pathological the moment his consciousness is no longer able to neglect or suppress his instinctual side.” (C.G. Jung) In this book we look at animal dreams as a symbolic expression of the instinctual, i.e. unconscious psychic functioning of man, which is crucial for the well-being of both the individual and the society.

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Also available in German: Tiere und Tierträume

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Regina Abt (1945) ist in Zürich geboren. Sie hat ihr Studium in Volkskunde, Religionsgeschichte und Volksliteratur an der Universität Zürich abgeschlossen und am C.G. Jung Institut in Küsnacht als Jung’sche Analytikerin diplomiert. Seit 1985 arbeitet sie in eigener Praxis. Sie gibt Vorlesungen am Forschungs- und Ausbildungszentrum für Tiefenpsychologie nach C.G. Jung und M.-L. von Franz, am Internationalen Seminar für Analytische Psychologie Zürich (ISAP) und am C.G. Jung-Institut in Küsnacht. Sie ist Co-Autorin von Traum und Schwangerschaft (1996)), Dream Child (2000), Autorin von Animals and Animal Dreams (2011), Tiere und Tierträume (2012), Königstochter und Zauberpferd (2013), Princess and Magic Horse (2013), Der Heilige und das Schwein (2015) und The Saint and the Pig (2015).

Regina Abt (1945), born in Zürich, Switzerland, has a masters degree in European Ethnology, History of Religion and Folk Literature and is a Jungian analyst, a graduate of the C.G. Jung Institut in Küsnacht. She has been in private practice since 1985 and lectures at the Research and Training Center for Depth Psychology according to C.G. Jung and M.-L. von Franz, at the C.G. Jung Institute in Küsnacht. She is co-autor of Dream Child (2000), author of Animals and Animal Dreams (2011), Princess and Magic Horse (2013), The Saint and the Pig (2015) and other publications in German (see above)