The Dream Book of Self-Knowledge

Refugee

  • a frequent theme of stories about destroyed cities, countries or worlds, and the search for new conditions for life; in these stories the refugee symbolizes the dreamer's traits that he either leaves as unneeded in the old world (leaves the refugees in a destroyed place and continues alone), or takes with him on the journey to the new world (continues with refugees in fleeing the old world); see Apocalypse archetype.