1 Golovátina-Mora, P. (2015). Monstrous dreams and monstrous memory as a fear of Self? En W. Owczarski y Z. Ziemann (Eds.). Dreams, Phantasms and Memories. Gdansk: Editorial de la Universidad de Gdansk [ISBN: 978-83-7865-312-7] (pp. 337-350). Monstrous dreams and monstrous memory as a fear of Self? Polina Golovátina-Mora, PhD, Universidad Pontificia Bolivariana, Medellín, Colombia, polina.golovatina@upb.edu.co Abstract: The article analyses three recent popular vampire narratives, True Blood, The Twilight Saga, and the Vampire Diaries in the broader context of monstrous theories and dream studies. On the one hand, vampires as dreams and symbols themselves carry messages of the unconscious and warn about what is going wrong in the functioning of Self. On the other hand, vampire as a narrative is packed with dreams of its characters. The focus of these dreams, together with the overall vampire narrative, is a negotiation of Self and its sanitation. Those negotiations predominantly appear to go between various parts of Self that a vampire aims to collect by bringing it into pieces and then reassembling it. It is a painful process and naturally is feared. This is the fear of Self. Vampires are immortal only because this fear of Self is recurrent. As dreaming is a process of recollection, balancing between remembering and forgetting is an essential part of it and, so, of a vampire symbol. The purpose of the paper is to draw attention to the studies of dreams and meaning of symbols they carry for understanding individual and collective Self. Key words: vampires, symbols, narrative, Self-organization, marvelous “Man, that inveterate dreamer, …” (Breton, 1972/1924: 3). “You’re in for a rough night, Potter. Regrowing bones is a nasty business” (Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets, 2002). Dreaming as a natural function of a person has always accompanied narratives if not even being their central and turning point. In psychology, dreams receive different interpretation that seem to be quite uniform, though, in the definition of the purpose of dreaming – Self. The unconscious reveals itself to us in different ways (e.g. Jung, 1988/1964; 2012). Vampires can be one of them. Employing the theory of self-organization function of the dreaming (e.g. Kahn,