1044 dreams of 20 Korean analysands (10 males and 10 females) were analized in order to deter-mine the nature of conflicts affecting them and to discoer how the unconscious solves the conflicts.
To examine cultural influences upon the distribution and content of conflict-motives 497 dreams of 6 European alysands were compared with the Korean cases.
1. The dreams of the male analysands present far more conflict-motives than those of the female group. In the first month of analysis 27.3% of the male analysands´ dreams reveal conflict motives in contrast to 14% in the dreams of the opposite sex.
. 2. Unlike the Korean samples, the European examples show fewer occurences of conflict-motives. Further, they suggest no marked differences by sex in the frequency of such occurences. These divergences may be attributed to the dissimilar personality problems women experience in the European and Korean clutures.
3. No significant correlation was found between the high occurrence of conflict motives on the one hand and specific clinical disorders of the analysands or their clinical outcomes on the other.
4. The conflict-objects-those objects in dreams that cause the state of tension and crisis, varied widely, the most frequently appearing ones were personified images such as military men, enemies,
North Korean troops, policemen, giiorrilas, Japaileit forces, Russian troops, Roman soldiers and friends or family members. Others include such archaic images as monsters. demons, witches. animals ie. , snakes, pigs. rats, tigers, lions, and animals disguized into human figures. Only rarely do inanimate objects appear.
Animal images as sources of conflict occurred far less frequencty in the European samples, where the Chinese, Tibetan or African people appeared in connection with transference situations.
5. Dreams offer diverse solutions to the Unconscious conflicts of the dreamer and suggest many different ways of managing crises, no definite pattern was detectable, either specific to the
Korean grotip or Common to both European AM Korean groups. The dreams of the Korean famale analysands lack the ´Iysis´ of the dream drama and manifest a ]relatively passive attitude of the group.
In contrast the dreams of the male group are charachterized by a wider range of confrontations with threats in the dreams.
Some psychologic implications of the nature of conflicts in the dream of the Korean analysandswere discussed in the light of C. G. Jungs´ concept
of the unconscius complexes. A more detailed study may be attempted focusing symbolical aspects of those conficts, and with more large control group.
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