Dreaming Abraxas: Four‐Eyed Babies and Unexpected Birth ¹

Abstract The present paper examines images of the baby as monster, observed in an adolescent female patient, and proposed by Jung in the Visions Seminars , with reference to the archetypal figure of Abraxas, also quoted by Jung in the Red Book . Such images bring considerable amount of disruptive anxiety to the life of individuals and represent transpersonal and paradoxical coagulation of psychic fragments that—in a strenuous dialogue/conflict—can create substantial movement within the analytic relationship. My choice is to analyse these elements within the framework of the adolescent mind, adolescence being a configuration where monsters and re‐narrated babies are—in various ways—always present. Jung and Bion, particularly the trilogy Memoir of the Future, will give theoretical support to the clinical material.