G william domhoff dream theory freud

Moving Dream Theory Beyond Freud and Jung

G. William Domhoff

University of California, Santa Cruz

Domhoff, G. W. (2000). Moving Dream Theory Beyond Freud and Jung. Paper presented to the symposium "Beyond Freud and Jung?", Graduate Theological Union, Berkeley, CA, 9/23/2000.

Introduction

The scientific studies of dreaming and dream content that have accumulated gradually over the past 50 years do not support any of the ideas about dreams that are specifically "Freudian" or "Jungian," but they do support the general notion that many dreams have meaning in the sense of coherence, correlations with other psychological variables, and connections with waking thoughts (Domhoff, 1996; Fisher & Greenberg, 1977; Fisher & Greenberg, 1996; Foulkes, 1985; Foulkes, 1999).

The findings also allow for the possibility that at least some dreams are the "symbolic" product of the same processes of figurative thinking found in waking thought, but much work would have to be done on