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DISCUSSION ON FREUDIAN AND JAIN ....... : 45
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Religion
Opium, neurosis
Path to liberation
Civilization
Harmful
Non-necessarily
harmful True dreams
True dreams.
Dream of Innocence
On these basic assumptions, both differ radically. For Freud, self is distressed and has no way to escape discontent unto death and for Jainism soul is basically pure and its pure form can be achieved by spiritual upliftment. The ultimate aim of human life is to attain that liberation. Differing mainly on this point, further problems can be understood as where the path that blocks for Freud is open for Jainism.
Some Important Comparisons The origin, function, sources and types of dreams and many more things are just different in both the fields. On one hand, Jain philosophy has many abstract phenomena as beliefs in background i.e. belief in existence of soul, belief in karma (record of past deeds giving result in future), belief in transmigration of soul and belief in scriptures on other hand in Jainism, the nature of soul or the self is just different. Hence, philosophy of Jain and philosophy of Sigmund Freud standing at the base, makes the difference and creates difference in interpretation of dream symbols. Few of the points, which are inalienably attached to dream theory, must be understood well with difference in both the schools. Unconscious Mind and Mohaniya Karma Freud's theory has interpreted the dreams basing mainly on the theory of levels of mind especially the role of unconscious mind. The repreșsed desires in Jain terminology can be compared to karma (our past deeds records). They are at the deepest level of the self may be as the unconscious mind is and are intimately related to the soul. According to Jainism, soul has multiple functional faculties and one of them is mind. Thus the unconscious mind of Freud can be compared to the karma that resides in the soul.
