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It seemed appropriate in the context of the recent Journal conference in San Francisco to give particular attention to the local publication, the Jung Journal, in the current issue of which is the most delightful article by Hildemarie Streich. This is a name unlikely to be familiar to many of us, but Dr. Streich was a musician, music therapist and analytical psychologist practising in Berlin where she was born in 1922 and still lives, now visually impaired, but still active. Her relative obscurity, although she was a frequent contributor to the Eranos conferences in the 1970s, is largely due to the circumstance that neither of her two analysts, Kaethe Bugler and Gustav Heyer, were part of the mainstream Dieckmann derived Berlin Institute. This article has surfaced through the kind offices of Tom and Jean Kirsch who visited Hildemarie last year and were quick to recognize the intrinsic quality of this paper originally delivered to the C.G. Jung Institute in Zürich in 1999. It is a quietly impressive piece, very Jungian (in the Zürich—centric sense), but engagingly unpretentious despite its broad theme. This spirit is wonderfully well captured by her report of a professional musician who dreamt of two encounters with Bach and Mozart. The musician found himself overawed and flustered by this dream happenstance and anxiously uncertain as to the correct formal address towards the Maestros—their respective responses were however so utterly disarming and delivered in such marked regional accents that the dreamers' stilted superego thus received a liberating injection of earthy spontaneity.
So the reader need not feel too intimidated by the sweeping scope and deep resonances of the author's introduction ‘The ancient meaning of music’, which asserts that ‘evidence of archaic musical concepts and structures are also hidden in the unconscious depth of the human psyche …. music often appears in dreams as a kind of therapeutic agent of the psyche’. This is implicit in the derivat