The Dream Book of Self-Knowledge
- looking for, digging up: the still unconscious impulses of an instinctual nature are rising to the consciousness of the dreamer who is trying to understand their essence.
- consists of a hard and resistant wood which essentially symbolizes the ego, and therefore the assimilation of this symbol, like the assimilation of the ego by higher ideals will not be easy.
- a phallic essence and dark roots of the past threaten with the regrowth of instinctual content in the mind (the growth of a new tree), if the remains of roots or a stump (the naturally formed wood) remain in the nourishing ground.
- as a decoration or burning driftwood: represents a victory over subconscious sexual impulses.
