SIMBOLOGY OF DREAMS AND CULTURALITY

Abstract

This paper aims to analyze the symbols of the dream expressions, highlighting their therapeutic and cultural aspects, because every community has its own key for interpreting dreams, from the codes of their cultural heritage. Dreams provide important supports for balance and administration of life. To sustain the arguments about dream states, concepts related to Multiculturalism and some Jung`s concepts like Archetype and Collective Unconscious are analyzed. It indicates that although dreams have universal aspects - themes common to all cultures - they are interpreted by the dreamer’s daily specificities and the community in which they live. This article adds to the studies in psychology that dream expressions do not always act in accordance with the internal rules of the body, not as archetypes and symbols. They are episodes or moments in motion with many creative possibilities. This perspective calls for new therapies and interpretative methodologies; it requests more cultural approaches to research onto the dream activities. For this study, reports were investigated, videos, statements of people participating in the catholic-african-indigenous religious culture in Brazil. From reports and codes of Brazilian religious culture are analyzed specific customs and symbolic practices of Brazilian culture in the twenty-first century. Sexual relations, food and everyday behavior, for example, are cultural elements linked to the dream states and are analyzed from the symbolic theology of Brazilian culture. The study concludes that the ancestors and unconscious images provide the human organism responses to troubles. So that it is necessary to develop new researches to know better the dreamstates.