What does it mean to dream about liver?
A liver often points to vitality and what you process inwardly, the body's quiet labour, and in old belief the seat of deep feeling.
Four ways to read it
Each reading below comes from a named tradition and a cited source, so you can see where it came from and decide what fits your dream.
Freud
Freud would read the liver as a hidden inner organ, working out of sight, and as a possible focus for fears about health. Trouble there can stand for something the dreamer feels is being slowly worn down within.
After Freud, The Interpretation of Dreams (Brill trans., 1913), public domain.Jung
Jung would see the liver as an image of inner transformation, the quiet work of taking in and making clean. A sick liver may mark a feeling that something deep within needs tending or release.
Jungian concept (our summary).Modern
Continuity ties the liver to waking concerns about health, drink, and the body's unseen workings. It often appears when a person has been worrying over how they are treating themselves.
Continuity hypothesis (our summary).Mythological
Old traditions read the liver as the seat of passion and of life, and diviners searched it for the will of the gods. In one famous tale the liver was the very part torn at by day and healed by night, an emblem of endless renewal under pain.
Rosmerta Publishing editorial synthesis (after Bulfinch; Brewer).