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The purpose of dreams and art is the third point of comparison.","In Borges' initial dream-texts, contained in Historia universal de la infamia, images of the Shadow archetype predominate in every dream-text. The Shadow is defined as the inferior, unadapted, amoral, darker side of the psyche.","In Ficciones, the stories reveal a deeper, more intense archetype, the Self. The Self is identified as the central, unifying archetype which represents the center of personality, encompassing both consciousness and the unconscious mind. Various Self manifestations in the stories are explored: the union of opposites; the unseen organizational order of the universe; geometric figures; and the famous Borgesian labyrinth, analogous to the compensatory Jungian mandala, the universal symbolic representation of the Self.","In Borges' final collection of stories, El libro de arena, the author retraces some of this steps and reworks some of the Shadow themes and Self themes explored in his earlier collections. However, these psychically less satisfactory reworkings of earlier themes do not prepare the dreamer for a richer life experience, but rather for the transformation from life to death. Four dream-texts, in which the preparation for death is the central feature, are discussed in detail. (Abstract shortened with permission of author.)","Made available in DSpace on 2011-05-07T13:00:16Z (GMT). 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