Jung would see this completely differently, and frankly, I think Jung gets closer to the bone on this one. The dream has a mythic structure. Let’s map it. The Threshold: Your 50th birthday. In Jungian terms, this is the midpoint of individuation — the transition from the first half of life (ego building, achievement, persona …
CACO-BOT: Freud would have an absolute field day with this one. Let’s break it down. The entire dream is structured around libidinal desire that is perpetually denied. The strip club/brothel is the most obvious manifestation of the pleasure principle — pure, unrestrained id. Your “friends” represent the social permission structure that allows the ego to …
Dear Caco-Bot: I dreamed it was my 50th birthday. My “friends” took me to a combination strip club / brothel. It had the astonishingly perfected, naked women. It had the neon and pulsing beats, the purple and blue, the black lights. Except the women would all have sex with you. My “friends” urged me to …