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… Hall is, however, at his best in his exhaustive study of Jungian dream interpretation. Especially does he give weight to an extended discussion of the compensatory function of dreams in which they are seen to be one of the means whereby the psyche can achieve self-regulation at times of imbalance. Dream images are ascribed to the symbol-forming work of the transcendent function of the self — or central archetype as he calls it — not, however, without some discussion of Fordham's views on the matter. It does not seem quite clear as to whether Hall places more emphasis upon the analysis of the dream as such as compared with the analysis of the dreamer as a person, but he certainly puts the case for closely observing, in rather exact detail, the minutiae of each dream, and to this end even takes the trouble to give basic instructions for the accurate recording of dreams by the dreamer. Consonant with this attitude is his detailed discussion about layers or levels of amplification in relation to complexes in order to reconnect the ego to the structure of the complex for its modification. He also retains a clear distinction between interpretation on the subjective level and that on the objective level. He rejects a hard distinction between reductive ‘causal’ and prospective ‘final’ interpretation and defines his therapeutic aim to be ‘the use of the dream to help the analysand understand the direction of individuation that his central archetypal process is suggesting to his current ego’ (p. 146). Finally, in relation to this, he expatiates on distinctions that may be drawn between the dream ego and the waking ego on the one hand and some sort of I which would seem to relate to a central point of the self.…
… He also develops a theory of enactment. As compared with the experience of being seized by a complex and ‘acting it out’, there is another which he calls ‘acting-in — inwards towards an inward meaning that is then poured outward into the world so that it is caught a