Narrow-Minded

It's a little funny how Jung started off using Freud as a frequent example (this was to lay down the foundation of dream knowledge of his time). I've mentioned that Jung has mentioned the wish-fulfillment as part of Freud's ideas (and many other things like symbols and concealment, etc.). However, as Jung finishes up his section on the aspects of dream psychology, I find that he is deviating from Freud. Obviously, there would be no point in writing the text if he were just reiterating Freud. In fact, Jung tosses in many other dream functions with wish-fulfillment into the dream function pool. Basically, Jung is saying that dreams do much more than fulfill wishes. Just in the entry below, Jung introduced the compensatory and prospective functions. Along the way he introduces reductive functions and various others. But the main point here is that Freud was narrow-minded for claiming that all dreams are simply unconscious ideas symbolized mixed with wish-fulfillment.

One of my commenters (ille est: vitor p3), mentioned this fact as well. If I recall correctly, he mentioned that perhaps the dream-analyst sees the wish-fulfillment only because s/he believes it is there; i.e.: their mind is not open to other possibilities. This is an interesting argument. Jung drags on and on about the complexity of the mind and how Freud only uses one and only one model for dreams (wish-fulfillment). I find a connection between Freud's (maybe Jung's as well) take on dream functions and their views on dreams in general (remember finality?).

Freud was the one who bought into causality, the cause of the dream. For Freud, wish-fulfillment was the only function for dreams. Therefore, the cause of the dream is the wish because it needs to be fulfilled. That wish is the cause and that aligns perfectly with Freud's approach on dreams (causality and the wish-fulfillment function of dreams). Freud's initial work on dreams (wish-fulfillment) seems to have led him to limit his ideas about dreams (the focus on causality instead of Jung's finality [or whatever other approaches there are]). In short, Freud only represents one narrow view.