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42: śramaņa, Vol 63, No. 3, July-Sept. 2012 some or other common factors, which is shared by different games. The concept of language game holds that among different games, there are some common factors. Similarly every language too has its own syntactic and semantic rules and one has to follow them to communicate successfully or man consciously or unconsciously follows those rules and regulations. A pattern of language is set in the mind of the user of the language which makes him to understand the intention of the speaker having similar pattern. Freud himself has said that “"It would certainly be of great psychological interest if all these dreams were recorded and it will easily be understood how much we longed for sleep, since it could offer each one of us everything that he most eagerly desired”. 3 The Freudian and Jain interpretation of dreams is an example of such interpretation. Both look just opposite to each other because one provides entirely an ancient touch to the dreams and its interpretation and the other is purely empirical and experimental one. Although Freud's modern outlook had also gone through the ancient myths, folk lore and cultures. He studied them and tried to give shape to some of his ideas on the basis of ancient beliefs and literature. For e.g. the concept of Eros a Thanatos, the Oedipas complex and Electra complex etc. are derived from those sources. Still it can be said that he implied all those things just to give strength to his basic theories and ideas. Freud's approach is clinical and descriptive." Methodology of Interpretation of Symbolic Dreams The second point of difference is the methodology adopted for interpretation. Freud and Jain both have a very different approach to the interpretation of dreams. Jainism is an ancient religion and philosophy and obviously it had no experimentation lab and research methodology similar to that of Freud, which had known and applied in his writings. Empirical studies done by Freud have revealed many unknown facts regarding the basic components of dream, functioning of mind, process of dreaming and dream symbols. Freud had studied dreams to understand the basic human nature and experimented upon
