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The Traumreich, part three

The Traumreich, part three

"Then Joseph said to them, 'Do not interpretations belong to God? Tell me your dreams.'”

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Marc Chagall’s 1966 painting Jacob’s Dream

Outside of The Book of Revelation, the language of which is certainly written to capture the hallucinogenic imagery of dreams, the richest source for the influence of the Traumreich is in the Gospel of Matthew. In fact, Matthew’s is the only Gospel that finds dreams driving the narrative.

If the Joseph of Genesis was the greatest dreamer of the Older Te…

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