Sigmund Freud was a famous psychologist and publisher of The Interpretation of Dreams; he was the first one to suggest that dreams may serve a particular scientific purpose (Bernstein). Freud began to analyze dreams because he thought that dreams had a connection to people’s personalities. He also believed that dreams happened for a reason, to preserve sleep. In addition, Freud thought that dreams could reveal a person’s deepest unconscious wishes and desires (McAndrew). Freud’s theory viewed all dreams as a form of wish fulfillment. He recognized that the interpretation of dreams was just a manifestation of the unconscious brain working at night. Besides believing that dreams happened for a reason, Freud believed in the displacement of dreams. The displacement of the dream content occurs when the manifest content hardly resembles the actual meaning of the dream thought (wiki). He assumed that dreams that are separate from each other have the same meaning, …show more content…
Jung believed that dreams were actually direct expressions of the mind itself. According to Jung, dreams served two functions; the first one was about compensating for imbalances in the dreamer’s mind, body, and feelings and second to provide prospective images of the future (Bernstein). He valued dreams so much since he assumed that they were an important part of the development of a person’s personality, also known as individuation. Jung thought that dreams were a form of compensation (West). In addition, he suggested two basic approaches for analyzing dreams, which were objective and subjective. For the objective approach, every person in the dream refers to his or her own person and in the subjective approach every character or object in the dream represents an aspect of the dreamer (wiki). Jung felt the necessity that everyone should analyze and think about their dreams in order to find its