Similar to initiation. In the example the girl is with her boyfriend. She may thus have been ‘initiated’ into sexual activity. Sex with her boyfriend has changing her image of herself. A ritual depicts: Important change – such as entrance into puberty; deeper levels of oneself; new attitudes or skills, just as marriage is an entrance into a new type of life and social situation. From the wider sense of self our unconscious has, things are see, as important, which we consciously feel are trivial. A ceremony in a dream brings such things to our attention.
