The Dream Book of Self-Knowledge
- own husband, wife (including former partners): husband (wife) and lover are a frequent representation of the instinctual animus (instinctual anima) and represent relations and conflicts on the instinctual level.
- on rare occasions one's husband (wife) can represent the emotional level, but only if the dream image is accompanied by other emotional images and is freed of all sexuality.
- marriage reflects desires and resolves conflicts that are usually on the instinctual level of experience and only rarely on the emotional level.
- ill husband or wife: the dreamer is gradually healing the strongest instinctual relations through his emotions.
- father of wife or husband: expresses a negative character of the Father – Mother archetype and can represent a personification of the Shadow archetype.
