Sramana 2012 07

SR No.: 525081
Original Sutra Author: N/A
Author: Shreeprakash Pandey
Publisher: Parshvanath Vidhyashram Varanasi
Publication Year: 2012
Total Pages: 90
Language: Hindi
Classification: Magazine, India_Sramana, & India
File Size: 11 MB

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DISCUSSION ON FREUDIAN AND JAIN ..... 53
innocent dreams may embody crudely erotic wishes. Sometimes analysis leads back to wishful impulses, which are unmistakably sexual.27
The main difference between Freud and Jainism is found that where Jain accounts of dreams do not always consider dreams to be an outcome of repressed desires like in case of mother's dreams, we cannot necessarily hold them to be the result of repressed desires. There is no discussion regarding the repression of dreams found in Jainism but there is a mention of incessant production of desires. The past experiences do reflect in dreams, but those past experiences are not always repressed ones. Any experience that had an influence on our mind may reflect in dream other than that the environment, karmas, place, time etc. also influences the dream objects. Hence it is not always the repressed desires that reflects in dreams. The 'repressed desires' can be included into Anubhūta, Drsta, Śruta, Cintita-past experiences as a dream sources but there are other sources also which are equally important as we have discussed in sources of dreams in Jainism. Freud's theory is centralized only to the aspect of wish fulfillment in dreams, which is not completely the objective of dreams in Jainism.
Although, there is an account of manifest and latent content in both the dream interpretations but one is the outcome of past experiences or repressed desires and a theory of wish fulfillment while the other is much concerned with the future of the person. It predicts the future of the dreamer. These dreams remaining totally independent of past experiences depict future events in actual or symbolic codes that are ultimately translated to understandable language by dream interpreters. As in the case of the mothers who have conceived the divine soul. Although dreams of pregnant women are not yet been examined independently on experimental basis but still we find such illustrations in abundance in Jainism. Hence we can presume the importance of the dreams of a pregnant women and experiment may bring up new truth to light hidden behind till now.