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In the fairytale, the knight Bluebeard is a man who gives his wife the key to all the rooms of his castle. He warns her, however, not to open one particular door. When she defies the warning and opens the door in Bluebeard's absence, she finds the corpses of his previous wives. Bluebeard catches her in the act, but she escapes death. Dreams like this, in numerous modern variations, are not common. According to Jung, this dream image is one of the many manifestations of the archetype for which he coined the element in the female personality. In this dream, with its figure of a woman-killing villain, an unconscious aspect of the female dreamer's personality is shown -- i.e. suppressed masculine traits.
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