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DISCUSSION ON FREUDIAN AND JAIN
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Going through Freud's Interpretation of Dreams, we come across various facts regarding the dreams and keeping those facts in mind if we look into Jain interpretation of dreams, we find many new insights opening unto us. In short, the method of writing each chapter of Interpretation of Dreams has a newer insight. Several issues will be taken one by one and scrutinized. In the first chapter of Interpretation of Dreams Freud has dealt with the scientific literature on dreams." It has been found in these literature that every study on dreams has included sleep, waking state and their relation to dreams. Hence it is essential to have a reflection on this topic.
Sleep, Waking State and Dreams
Sleeping and dreaming are without question important aspects of human life. Homo sapiens are creatures those sleep or dream. It is a part of the life that a human being would sleep and dream. Despite the fact that we all believe in sleeping and dreaming, there are empirical as well as conceptual reasons for formulating different concepts providing different analysis to sleep and dream. 12
Dreaming and sleeping are not the same. No one dreams all the time they sleep, hence among various states of consciousness, we find one is sleeping and other is dreaming. Sleep is necessary for dreaming. It has a causal relation with dreaming. On the other hand, Freud say function of dreaming is to restore sleep. The root word 'Isvapanka Śayane"in Jainism itself actually mean 'to sleep'. Then the meaning is extended to dreaming because it has a close connection with dreaming. Hence for sleeping and dreaming single root is used in Sanskrit language as well as in Jain literature.
