Unconscious and dreams: Correspondence with the Greek Hades
The purpose of this book is to critically discuss the thesis of the American author James Hillman, according to which there is a correspondence between the unconscious, dreams and the Greek Hades. In order to demonstrate this link, Hillman – founder of archetypal psychology – goes back to the origin and archetypal principle of the unconscious and dreams, that is, to the Greek Hades. From a position contrary to that of this author, The unconscious and dreams: correspondence with the Greek Hades, proposes to first go to the social and cultural context in which Hades came to life (to Greek mythological and philosophical thought), and then delve into in Freud's work and establish to what extent the link intended by Hillman is possible. The findings obtained allowed us to identify that it is not so precise to affirm that there is a direct correspondence or link between Freud's conception of the unconscious and the image of the Greek Hades. On the side of dreams, although Freud resumed from the ancients the value that they attributed to him within the human future, he distanced himself in the way in which he understood dreams, their unconscious formation and the technique for their interpretation.
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