Heejoo Park

Dreams in myths represent signs of divine birth, divine revelation, prophecy, causes of illness and healing. In myths and other stories, dreams become important subjects in both the East and the West, and especially in Buddhism, it has the meaning of ceremonial impermanence(諸行無常). The aspects of dreams appearing in classical literature are generally divided into two categories: one is that the entire contents of the work are made of dreams, and the other is when dreams serve as an opportunity to solve problems in the development of the work. Meanwhile, Western scholars such as, Freud see dreams as a world of the unconscious, and they value dreams as tools to heal problems in the mental world. Freud revealed that dreams are neither meaningless nor absurd, and that their essence is the fulfillment of wishes, a purely psychological phenomenon. However, there are many types of dreams that seem to violate that theory. Typically, anxiety-dreams and unpleasant dreams cannot be at all pleasant content, nor do they appear to be wish fulfillment. However, if we examine and interpret the potential dream-think behind the content, we can see that even such dreams are wish fulfillment. In other words, dream-thinking before being processed into dream-content by dream-distortion are all wish fulfillment and this is called the disguised fulfillment of the suppressed hope. It is expressed in the spiritual space of dreams by combining the suppressed hopes of reality and memories of the past. These art works show how the human unconscious is conscious of the suppressed human nature with the theory of Freud with the artist symbol of vortex figures.