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44: śramaņa, Vol 63, No. 3, July-Sep. 2012 the hidden unconscious wishes that are repressed lying in unconscious mind. Those wishes are causes for neurotic behavior. Dreams can take us to that door of unconscious and make the hidden necessary data available for understanding the neurotic behavior and its causes." Hence dreams have a significant role to play in human life. His famous proverb thus received a great fame i.e. ‘Dreams are royal road to unconscious'.' It takes us directly to the dreamer's unconscious impulses that determines one's nature, directs behavior and generates emotions.
Now, an effort can be made to see how these two branches of knowledge advocate the truth regarding the basics or foundation of human nature and a popular question on Freud 'Can man come out of distressful situation?' would be tried to answer according to Jain view.
Analysis of Freud's View from Jain Point of View As the paradigm shifts, theories conceptions and outlooks also get shifted.
TABLE: Basic Assumptions of Human Nature
5. Subject
Freudian Concept
Jain Concept
|1 | Human Nature Psycho-biological
Spirituo-psychical
2
Desires
Is in the nature of self, Non-self , can be cannot be controlled controlled
3
Basic instinct
Sex
Possession
Repression
Mohanīya Karma
Cause of Conflict Primitive Mind
Contented
Cannibalistic, Narcissistic incestuous
