When dying people are strongly identified with their body and fear that bodily death means complete annihilation, their dreams shift to symbolic content designed to detach them from physical identification and suggest survival beyond bodily dissolution.
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Marie-Louise von FranzEvidence Quote
“when they are strongly identified with their body and therefore inclined to think that when the body is finished, everything is finished. Then, they have dreams which try to detach them from the body.”
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Carl Jung’s Near-Death Experience & Marie-Louise von Franz on the Mystery of Death-Dreams— The Jungian AionCreated: 8/11/2026, 7:43:30 AM
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