The Dream Book of Self-Knowledge
- symbolizes the materialistic desire for the opportunity of material gain, but loss on the emotional or spiritual level.
- chickens, hens or other poultry in a barn or around it: the negativity of the symbol of the barn from the perspective of an emotional and spiritual person is intensifying.
- a mess in the barn: should motivate the dreamer to clean in the same sense as one of Heracles' tasks in which he was to clean out the Augean stables from years of filth (see the Hero archetype).
- attacks of instinctual personifications on the dreamer take place in a barn (often with a sexual subtext): an attack of uncontrolled instincts; sometimes the barn can also be a milieu for the assimilation of the psyche's instinctual contents (e.g. in an image of animals being tamed).
- as a refuge: a negative image in which the dreamer is hiding in the instinctual content of his psyche and does not dare face the threat that would move him to a higher level of experience.
