No, I'm not talking about letter grades. I'm talking about the two different standpoints on dreams: finality or causality; Jung or Freud.
Jung continues his text by introducing the idea of dream interpretation and analysis. Along the way, he makes several distinctions between Freud and himself, including their standpoints on dreams. Freud, he says, "starts from a desire or craving, that is, from the represeed dream-wish" (31). Essentially, Freud sees dreams simply as the fulfillment of a wish. Jung introduces his idea of finality, where the focus of dream analysis is the goal, or the purpose of the dream.
Jung claims that causality is rigid and very scientific. However, he says that finality digs deeper into the psychic processes.
He does provide a few examples, but as a normal reader, I do not exactly see how causality differs from finality. Allow me to explain, if dream interpretation's point is to discover the purpose of a dream, then the purpose of the dream is the goal of any method of interpretation. Therefore, causality has that goal in mind. Then, how does causality differ from finality, which focuses on purpose? Jung makes it quite clear that causality focuses on the dream in cause and effect, and finality on the "final" thing or purpose. However, it still continues to baffle me since dream analysis is about purpose.
With that aside, Jung does say that finality does what causality cannot. However, he says that both should be used to get a complete picture. As a writer who is probably trying to get his own theories and ideas out, Jung perhaps, just perhaps, added that in so he did not necessarily reject Freud's ideas (and therefore cause the body of psychologists to think he was uneducated or mad for rejecting the well-praised Freud).
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You did a very good job comparing both psychoanalysts' point of view in dream. The fact that you drew the conclusion that in the end finality and causality, or both of their ideas turn out to be the same. The title is also very clever, that helps bring attention and interest to outside people. Overall very good job, I would give you a B, which is better than a C and an F.
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