Research Article

Dream Motif in Folk Culture: An Analysis in The Context of Mother Archetype

Volume: 15 Number: 29 January 30, 2025
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Dream Motif in Folk Culture: An Analysis in The Context of Mother Archetype

Abstract

Dreams are one of the subjects that have attracted the curiosity of mankind for thousands of years. Dreams, in terms of containing various symbols, are suitable for various interpretations in the context of folk culture, religion and psychology disciplines. In Turkish folk culture, dreams appear as a motif in literary genres such as myth, epic, folk tale and in the training of shamans and minstrels. This dream motif has a very important place in folk culture in terms of making the person in the focal point experience change and transformation. Carl Gustav Jung, the founder of analytical psychology, argued that there is a collective unconscious as well as the individual unconscious and that archetypes exist outside the collective unconscious. It is seen that the content of the dream motif is also rich in archetypal symbols. In this context, after introducing what the dream motif is and how it appears in folk culture, two dreams taken from the process of becoming a shaman, two dreams taken from the process of becoming a lover and two dreams taken from narrative genres will be examined in the context of the mother archetype. The study aims to show that archetypal symbolism is applicable to folk culture studies and is important in this respect. When we look at the six dreams analysed in the study, it is seen that there are various manifestations of the mother archetype. In these dreams, the mother archetype appears as woman (ancestor and wise woman, stepmother, lover), milk lake, water and garden of paradise.

Keywords

dream , dream motif , carl gustav jung , archetypal symbolism , mother archetype

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APA
Çelik, G. (2025). Halk Kültüründe Rüya Motifi: Anne Arketipi Bağlamında Bir Çözümleme. Trakya Üniversitesi Edebiyat Fakültesi Dergisi, 15(29), 29-47. https://doi.org/10.33207/trkede.1484941