Yung's Theory of Dreams and the Unconscious

Young's last work is largely a response to froyd's theory of dreams and the unconscious. Yung doesn't describe freud's ideas in detail, so we should pause to review it briefly here. According to freud, dreams are not simply random successions of images based on the memories of waking life. This is what freud means by saying that dreams are fulfilments of wishes. For it sees dreams as functioning much like daytime fantasies, to provide us compensatory gratification when our impulses cannot be gratified immediately in reality. A fantasy life is fundamental to tolerating frustration until the next round of actual gratification. Froid saw this function as especially important during dreaming, because he thought