In The Night of 13 October 1942
Dreamed 1942/10/13, painted Sept. 1975 by Peter Birkhauser
Peter went on and had to jump from one platform to another over the abyss. From the opposite platform, an eye, the eye of God, was looking at him from a green triangle. It penetrated him with its overwhelming light.
This dream vision is the experience of ‘vocation’. The anima is inspired and illumined before the artist himself.
SOURCE: Light from the Darkness: the Paintings of Peter Birkhauser, (1980), p.80-1; commentary by his therapist Marie-Louise von Franz.
EDITOR'S NOTE
Birkhauser started as a realist, but became a dream artist--and a friend of Jung's. Both Peter and Sybille went into Jungian analysis; this dream was maybe a year into therapy.
My take here is simpler than Franz's. Sybille is Sybille, not some anima figure; she bravely accepts the kiss of a monster guarding the spire. Peter makes a scary leap and thus earns his own initiation, if from a more conventional God. The dream says their challenges differ in detail, but they're climbing to new spiritual heights together. Dreamwork is working.
--Chris Wayan
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