What If Dreams Are Not Just The Fulfillment Of Mistaken?

What if Sigmund Freud was mistaken? What if dreams are not just the fulfillment of wishes? What if dreams are also, as C.G. Jung postulated the “self-representations of the unconscious” (p. 285)? Throughout the text of Man and his Symbols, the intersecting, dare I say synchronistic, point is that man’s unconscious psyche conceals a symbol-creating archetypal purpose. These archetypes seem to leave extraordinary impressions on the individual which contributes to one’s ethical, emotional, and relational development. If probable meaning can be discovered within the archetypal structure, the symbolism might have an inventive or devastating force of impact on the individual. The subtle attempts towards an interpretation of the symbols must not weaken either the individual or the value of the

M.L. von Franz writes,
This seems to suggest that abnormal random phenomena may occur when a vital need or urge is aroused; and this, in turn, might explain why a species of animals, under great pressure or in great need, could produce “meaningful” (but acausal) changes in its outer material structure (p. 306).
Jung’s theories are diverse and in many ways difficult. However, this book makes the basic Jungian ideas extremely comprehensible. The unfolding of various literary and religious ideologies brings the reader an unparalleled recognition of what it means to be human; all too human.
Through my current reading of this book, I have now come to value the acute awareness of humanity that flow from Jungian Psychology.
Perhaps the most interesting idea, for me, was the Jungian attitude towards the idea of the unconscious. While most of the literature I read relegates unconsciousness to the sphere of the mysterious, Jung presents it as a concomitant part of consciousness and the ego