The Dream Book of Self-Knowledge

Scamp

  • does not represent an external problem as is might seem at first glance, but inner problem.
  • places a mirror to the dreamer's bad traits and gives him the chance to recognize his own "naughtiness" and to begin, through compassion, the path to ridding himself of a single bad trait; the unconscious sets this mirror only if the dreamer attempts to rid himself of this bad trait in waking consciousness.