As a result, Jungian psychologists attempt to interpret dream meanings and promote dream awareness among their clients. The Jungian approach amplifies a patient's dreams by using personal associations as well as cultural and archetypal amplifications drawing from knowledge of fairy tales, mythology, and religion. The dream images and words are constantly referred back to, and looked over, by a process called circumambulation. You pick up a lot of the popular books that say, 'if you dream this, it means that,' and I'm very wary of that. Warming spoke of the Swiss analyst, Marie Louise von Franz, noting that von Franz shows us the process of amplification in her book, The Interpretation of Fairy Tales .
Jungian psychologists study fairy tales to learn about the anatomy of the psyche.
Hillman pays close attention to ensuring that the process does not become an intellectual exercise. The balance for me is between keeping the feeling of the dream and amplifying the image. It's interesting to see if people react in their dreams. That's probably as telltale sometimes as the image. Jung differentiates between an objective level of dream interpretation and a subjective level of interpretation.